Vocabulary

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huā yán qiǎo graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words; cheating wheedling; dishonest rhetoric Idiom ∼HSK 4
bǎi nián only met with once every hundred years (drought, flood etc) Idiom ∼HSK 4
huà gān wéi lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom); fig. to turn hostility into friendship Idiom ∼HSK 4
míng bǎi zhe evident; clear; undoubted Xiehouyu ∼HSK 4
lái bu there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late (to do sth) Xiehouyu HSK 4
shòu liǎo unbearable; unable to endure; can't stand Xiehouyu HSK 4
bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly Xiehouyu HSK 4
unable; incapable Xiehouyu HSK 4
Wèi yāng Weiyang District of Xi’an, Shaanxi Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Li (surname) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Liú Sòng Song of the Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479), with capital at Nanjing Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Shàng shū same as Book of History Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Sūn Sun (surname) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Nán ān Nan'an, county-level city in Quanzhou, Fujian Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Tuò branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people, founders of Wei 北魏 of the Northern Dynasties (386-534); also written 拓拔 Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Ān píng Anping county in Hengshui, Hebei; Anping district of Tainan City, Taiwan Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Ān píng xiàn Anping county in Hengshui, Hebei Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Liáng zhōu Liangzhou district of Wuwei city, Gansu Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Wáng Míng Wang Ming (1904-1974), Soviet-trained Chinese communist, Comintern and Soviet stooge and left adventurist in the 1930s, fell out with Mao and moved to Soviet Union from 1956 Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Tóng xīn Tongxin county in Wuzhong, Ningxia Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
zhàn World War I (1914-1918) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Zhǎng sūn two-character surname Zhangsun Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Jiāng shān Jiangshan, county-level city in Quzhou, Zhejiang Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
méi xiǎng dào didn't expect HSK 4
Wèi kingdom of Wei; surname ∼HSK 4
Sòng Song dynasty; surname ∼HSK 4
meaning, intent ∼HSK 4
xiá chivalrous person; knight-errant ∼HSK 4
kāi zhàn to start a war; to make war; to battle against ∼HSK 4
yāo dài belt ∼HSK 4
ruò shì if ∼HSK 4
dān tiǎo to pick; to choose; to fight a duel; Taiwan pr. [dan1 tiao1] ∼HSK 4
ān wēi safety and danger; safety ∼HSK 4
shā chǎng sandpit; battleground; battlefield ∼HSK 4
wēi pomp, power; powerful; dominate ∼HSK 4
qǐng ān to pay respects; to wish good health; in Qing times, a specific form of salutation ∼HSK 4
zěn yāo néng how could one ∼HSK 4
wén shū document; official correspondence; secretary; secretariat ∼HSK 4
jiè using this as a pretext; thereby ∼HSK 4
zhī know ∼HSK 4
yǒu fāng to do things right; to use the correct method ∼HSK 4
lìng ài (courteous) your daughter ∼HSK 4
shǒu xuǎn first choice; premium; to come first in the imperial examinations ∼HSK 4
dìng foregone conclusion; to be settled conclusively ∼HSK 4
wéi term used by a father to refer to himself when speaking to his child ∼HSK 4
bié xuǎn to have no other choice ∼HSK 4
chū bīng to send troops ∼HSK 4
shǒu wèi to guard; to defend ∼HSK 4
shǎn shī mishap; accident; accidental loss ∼HSK 4
bǎi to arrange; to order about; to manipulate ∼HSK 4