Vocabulary
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| 亲戚 親戚 | a relative (i.e. family relation) | |
| 功 功 | meritorious deed or service; achievement; result; service; accomplishment; work (physics) | |
| 绑 綁 | to tie; bind or fasten together; to kidnap | |
| 采 採 | to pick; to pluck; to collect; to select; to choose; to gather | |
| 割 割 | to cut; to cut apart | |
| 窝 窩 | nest; pit or hollow on the human body; lair; den; place; to harbor or shelter; to hold in check; to bend; classifier for litters and broods | |
| 讨 討 | to invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for; to send armed forces to suppress; to denounce or condemn; to marry (a woman); to discuss or study | |
| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 绑架 綁架 | to kidnap; to abduct; to hijack; a kidnapping; abduction; staking | |
| 持 持 | to hold; to grasp; to support; to maintain; to persevere; to manage; to run (i.e. administer); to control | |
| 老大 老大 | old age; very; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss; captain of a boat; leader of a criminal gang | |
| 醒来 醒來 | to waken | |
| 拳 拳 | fist; boxing | |
| 惹 惹 | to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems) | |
| 斗 斗 | abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 星 | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 贼头贼脑 賊頭賊腦 | lit. to behave like a thief; furtive; underhand | Idiom |
| 打草惊蛇 打草驚蛇 | lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom); fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy; to punish sb as a warning to others | Idiom |
| 饭桶 飯桶 | rice tub (from which cooked rice or other food is served); (fig.) fathead; a good-for-nothing | Xiehouyu |
| 浑蛋 渾蛋 | variant of | Xiehouyu |
| 老娘 老孃 | my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife | Colloquialism |
| 虾米 蝦米 | small shrimp; dried, shelled shrimps; (Tw) (coll.) what (from Taiwanese 啥物, Tai-lo pr. [siánn-mih], equivalent to Mandarin) | Colloquialism |
| 宰了 宰了 | (coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 指着 指著 | Poke | |
| 未婚妻 未婚妻 | fiancée | |
| 阿爹 阿爹 | dad; father; (paternal) grandfather; old man | |
| 贼窝 賊窩 | thieves' lair | |
| 香烛 香燭 | joss stick and candle | |
| 心肝宝贝 心肝寶貝 | precious darling (often refers to one's child); sweetheart | |
| 辞行 辭行 | to say goodbye; leave-taking; farewells | |
| 有道理 有道理 | to make sense; reasonable | |
| 硬仗 硬仗 | tough battle; difficult task; big challenge | |
| 撕票 撕票 | lit. to tear the ticket; to kill a hostage (usually held for ransom) | |
| 娘的 孃的 | same as | |
| 威猛 威猛 | bold and powerful | |
| 独生子 獨生子 | a son who is an only child | |
| 侄儿 侄兒 | nephew | |
| 绑匪 綁匪 | kidnapper | |
| 欠债 欠債 | to owe a debt; the sum owed | |
| 孤男寡女 孤男寡女 | a single man and a single woman; bachelors; a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting) | |
| 蟑螂 蟑螂 | cockroach | |
| 波罗蜜 波羅蜜 | jackfruit; breadfruit; Artocarpus heterophyllus | |
| 家产 家產 | family property | |
| 临死 臨死 | facing death; at death's door | |
| 煮饭 煮飯 | to cook | |
| 情郎 情郎 | boyfriend; paramour (of a woman) | |
| 一走了之 一走了之 | to avoid a problem by walking away from it; to quit |