Vocabulary

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hèng cái easy money; windfall; ill-gotten gains; undeserved fortune; illegal profit ∼HSK 6
sāi to get food stuck between one's teeth ∼HSK 6
fu husband of mother's sister; uncle ∼HSK 6
niáng de same as ∼HSK 6
quǎn lit. father a lion, son cannot be a dog (honorific); With a distinguished father such as you, the son is sure to do well.; like father, like son ∼HSK 6
quán to punch ∼HSK 6
lìng go quickly, as the law commands! (Daoist incantation); a spell formula ordering spirits to obey at once ∼HSK 6
jiān áo to suffer; to torture; to torment; ordeal; suffering; torture; torment ∼HSK 6
gào rén to be kept secret; not to be divulged ∼HSK 6
bào jiǎo lit. to clasp the Buddha's feet (without ever having burned incense) (idiom); fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble; panic measures in place of timely preparation ∼HSK 6
fèn nèi zhī shì one's duty; a matter within one's own responsibility (idiom) ∼HSK 6
shǎo ān zào keep calm, don't get excited; don't be impatient ∼HSK 6
lái zhī hard-won; not easily obtained (idiom); to be cherished because gained with difficulty ∼HSK 6
to talk in riddles ∼HSK 6
rùn fèi to moisten the lungs; to make expectoration easy (medicine) ∼HSK 6
màn tuó luó (botany) devil's trumpet (Datura stramonium) (loanword from Sanskrit "māndāra"); mandala (loanword from Sanskrit "maṇḍala") ∼HSK 6
simple yet elegant ∼HSK 6
shēn wài zhī mere worldly possessions ∼HSK 6
miǎn zāo to avoid suffering; to avoid meeting (a fatal accident); spared ∼HSK 6
bìng plague; a blight ∼HSK 6
sàng mén xīng messenger of death; person bringing bad luck; Taiwan pr. [sang1 men2 xing1] ∼HSK 6
jiàng hu paste; also written; Taiwan pr. [jiang4 hu2] ∼HSK 6
qiā to throttle; to choke to death ∼HSK 6
bàn huó half-dead; barely alive (idiom); listless and lifeless ∼HSK 6
gōng ér fǎn to return without any achievement (idiom); to go home with one's tail between one's legs ∼HSK 6
xián rén děng idlers and unauthorized persons; miscellaneous people with no business being there (idiom) ∼HSK 6
jiǎo huò to capture; to seize ∼HSK 6
shàng gōu to take the bait ∼HSK 6
pàn táo to defect ∼HSK 6
rèn zāi to admit defeat ∼HSK 6
xiāng to die in a foreign land (idiom) ∼HSK 6
lǒng luò rén xīn to win people over (by trickery or favors); to ingratiate oneself and gain others' allegiance (idiom) ∼HSK 6
xiōng lethal weapon; murder weapon ∼HSK 6
chū luó bo dài chū lit. when you pull a radish out of the ground, some dirt comes up with it (idiom); fig. to uncover, during the investigation of a crime, evidence of other crimes; to cause further problems while working on a problem ∼HSK 6
fèi jié tuberculosis; TB ∼HSK 6
míng mén wàng offspring a famous family (idiom); good breeding; blue blood ∼HSK 6
jiā xīn to raise salary ∼HSK 6
輿 kān geomancy ∼HSK 6
gōng chā tolerance (allowed error); common difference (of an arithmetic series) ∼HSK 6
jīn chí reserved; aloof ∼HSK 6
jiě fēng to lift a ban; to end a lockdown ∼HSK 6
rèn to succeed sb in a job; successor ∼HSK 6
kuì làn to fester; to ulcerate ∼HSK 6
míng míng zhī zhōng in the unseen world of spirits; mysteriously and inexorably ∼HSK 6
to bury; buried; interred ∼HSK 6
lìng dāng bié lùn to treat differently; another cup of tea ∼HSK 6
yīn zhái (feng shui term) tomb ∼HSK 6
xùn qíng to die together in the name of love; to sacrifice oneself for love ∼HSK 6
gōng to be late for or absent from work; to disrupt one's work; to cause a holdup in the work; loss of working time; a holdup ∼HSK 6
diàn to pay sb else's expense with the expectation of being reimbursed by that person later ∼HSK 6