Vocabulary
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| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | 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)? | |
| 洋人 洋人 | foreigner; Westerner | |
| 烫伤 燙傷 | to scald | |
| 忌日 忌日 | anniversary of a death; inauspicious day | |
| 娘的 孃的 | same as | |
| 作怪 作怪 | (of a ghost) to make strange things happen; to act up; to act behind the scenes; to make mischief; odd; to misbehave (euphemism for having sex) | |
| 祠堂 祠堂 | ancestral hall; memorial hall | |
| 阿公 阿公 | (old) grandfather; polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law; (Taiwanese) grandfather | |
| 挨骂 挨罵 | to receive a scolding | |
| 小姨 小姨 | mother's youngest sister; wife's younger sister; sister-in-law | |
| 慢吞吞 慢吞吞 | very slow; exasperatingly slow | |
| 长命百岁 長命百歲 | 长: long; length; excel in; leader · 命: life; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction · 百: one hundred; numerous, many · 岁: year; age; harvest | |
| 天理 天理 | Heaven's law; the natural order of things | |
| 兽医 獸醫 | veterinarian; veterinary surgeon; vet | |
| 阿爹 阿爹 | dad; father; (paternal) grandfather; old man | |
| 出气筒 出氣筒 | (metaphorical) punching bag; undeserving target of sb's wrath | |
| 眼眶 眼眶 | eye socket; rim of the eye | |
| 受尽 受盡 | to suffer enough from; to suffer all kinds of; to have one's fill of | |
| 惹火 惹火 | to stir up the fire; fig. to provoke and offend people; to ruffle feathers | |
| 哑巴 啞巴 | a mute; mute; silent | |
| 样样 樣樣 | all kinds | |
| 不顺 不順 | unfavorable; adverse | |
| 无缘无故 無緣無故 | (idiom) no cause or reason; completely uncalled for | |
| 招惹 招惹 | to court (trouble); to attract (attention); to provoke (sb) | |
| 招魂 招魂 | to call back the soul of sb who has died or is seriously ill; (fig.) to resurrect (an old system etc) | |
| 之恩 之恩 | 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 恩: kindness, mercy, charity | |
| 一拜 一拜 | 一: one; a, an; alone · 拜: do obeisance, bow, kowtow | |
| 逼人 逼人 | pressing; threatening | |
| 嫁人 嫁人 | (of a woman) to get married; to take a husband | |
| 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) | |
| 别理 別理 | don't get involved; ignore it!; don't have anything to do with (him, her etc); don't speak to | |
| 享福 享福 | to live comfortably; happy and prosperous life | |
| 入肉 入肉 | to have intercourse; to fuck | |
| 鼻梁 鼻樑 | bridge of the nose | |
| 跌断 跌斷 | to fall and fracture (a leg, vertebra etc) | |
| 气焰 氣焰 | arrogance; haughtiness | |
| 痰盂 痰盂 | spittoon | |
| 伤痕累累 傷痕累累 | cuts and bruises all over the body | |
| 消炎 消炎 | to reduce fever; antipyretic; to decrease inflammation | |
| 罗嗦 羅嗦 | erroneous variant of | |
| 不舒服 不舒服 | unwell; feeling ill; to feel uncomfortable; uneasy | |
| 梳头 梳頭 | to comb one's hair | |
| 不甘心 不甘心 | not reconciled to; not resigned to | |
| 侄女 姪女 | brother's daughter; niece | |
| 叔公 叔公 | great uncle; grandfather's younger brother; husband's father's younger brother | |
| 独生女 獨生女 | a daughter who is an only child | |
| 娘家 孃家 | wife's family (before marriage) | |
| 投缘 投緣 | to be kindred spirits; to hit it off |