Vocabulary: 读史五首（选二）
from 白居易诗选
- 王太傅x1 | Chapter Rank #259
- 乱丝x1 | Chapter Rank #260
- 西汉时x1 | Chapter Rank #261
- 史学家x1 | Chapter Rank #262historian
- 受x1 | Chapter Rank #263to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker); (LGBT) bottom
- 宫刑x1 | Chapter Rank #264castration (archaic punishment)
- 所x1 | Chapter Rank #265actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 居x1 | Chapter Rank #266to reside; to be (in a certain position); to store up; to be at a standstill; residence; house; restaurant; classifier for bedroomssurname Ju(archaic) sentence-final particle expressing a doubting attitude
- 监狱x1 | Chapter Rank #267prison
- 字x1 | Chapter Rank #268letter; symbol; character; word; CL:個|个[ge4]; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
- 叔x1 | Chapter Rank #269uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2]
- 夜x1 | Chapter Rank #270night
- 三国x1 | Chapter Rank #271Three Kingdoms period (220–280) in Chinese history; any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅|新罗[Xin1 luo2] in 658
- 魏x2 | Chapter Rank #92surname Wei; name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States; Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1], one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty; the Wei dynasty 221–265; Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in historytower over a palace gateway (old)
- 谯x1 | Chapter Rank #272surname Qiaoridicule; to blamedrum tower
- 著名诗人x1 | Chapter Rank #273
- 零x1 | Chapter Rank #274zero; nought; zero sign; fractional; fragmentary; odd (of numbers); (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one); fraction; (in mathematics) remainder (after division); extra; to wither and fall; to wither
- 雨x1 | Chapter Rank #275(literary) to rain; (of rain, snow etc) to fall; to precipitate; to wetrain; CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]
- 监牢x1 | Chapter Rank #276prison; jail
- 汉x1 | Chapter Rank #277Han ethnic group; Chinese (language); the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)man
- 四x2 | Chapter Rank #93four; 4
- 皓x2 | Chapter Rank #94(bound form) bright; luminous; white (esp. bright white teeth of youth or white hair of old age)spotlessly white
- 东园x1 | Chapter Rank #278
- 公x2 | Chapter Rank #95public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
- 甪x1 | Chapter Rank #279surname Lu; place name
- 里x2 | Chapter Rank #96lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裏|里[li3]Li (surname)li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m; neighborhood; ancient administrative unit of 25 families; (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
- 先生x1 | Chapter Rank #280teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband; (dialect) doctor; CL:位[wei4]
- 季x1 | Chapter Rank #281season; the last month of a season; fourth or youngest amongst brothers; classifier for seasonal crop yieldssurname Ji
- 夏x1 | Chapter Rank #282the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC; Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407–432); surname Xiasummer
- 于x2 | Chapter Rank #97surname Yuto go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle(of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by
- 此处x2 | Chapter Rank #98this place; here (literary)
- 颍x1 | Chapter Rank #283surname Ying; river in Henan and Anhui
- 水x1 | Chapter Rank #284surname Shui; Shui ethnic groupwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4 shui3] and 水性[shui3 xing4]); (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy; (bound form) additional cost; extra income; classifier for washings of a garment
- 发源x1 | Chapter Rank #285to rise; to originate; source; derivation
- 河南x1 | Chapter Rank #286see 河南省[He2 nan2 Sheng3]; see 河南蒙古族自治縣|河南蒙古族自治县[He2 nan2 Meng2 gu3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
- 经x1 | Chapter Rank #287classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 經濟|经济[jing1 ji4]surname Jing
- 安徽x1 | Chapter Rank #288see 安徽省[An1 hui1 Sheng3]
- 入x1 | Chapter Rank #289to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时[ru4 shi2]); abbr. for 入聲|入声[ru4 sheng1]; (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese 入 "iri")
- 淮河x1 | Chapter Rank #290Huai River, main river of east China, between the Yellow River 黃河|黄河[Huang2 He2] and the Changjiang 長江|长江[Chang2 Jiang1]
- 文x1 | Chapter Rank #291surname Wenlanguage; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67
- 许由x1 | Chapter Rank #292
- 传说x1 | Chapter Rank #293legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
- 上古x1 | Chapter Rank #294the distant past; ancient times; antiquity; early historical times
- 唐尧x1 | Chapter Rank #295Yao or Tang Yao (c. 2200 BC), one of Five Legendary Emperors 五帝[wu3 di4], second son of Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4]
- 隐士x2 | Chapter Rank #99hermit
- 古x1 | Chapter Rank #296ancient; old; paleo-surname Gu
- 捕鱼x1 | Chapter Rank #297to catch fish; to fish
- 捉x1 | Chapter Rank #298to clutch; to grab; to capture
- 鸟x1 | Chapter Rank #299penisbird; CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2]; "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196); (dialect) to pay attention to; (intensifier) damned; goddamn
- 网x1 | Chapter Rank #300net; web; network; to net; to catch with a net