Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- fatigued; exhausted; poverty-stricken; in straitened circumstances
- to post (a notice); to advertise
- ordinary people; the "person in the street"; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to pay (taxes or dues)
- compassion
- political; politics; government
- to cut down; to fell; to dispatch an expedition against; to attack; to boast; Taiwan pr. [fa1]
- to manufacture charcoal; to burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)
- wood charcoal; coal
- camp; barracks; battalion; to build; to operate; to manage; to strive for
- 单 chán: 单 chan2: used in 單于|单于[chan2 yu2]单 Shàn: 单 Shan4: surname Shan单 dān: 单 dan1: bill; list; form; single; only; sole; odd number; CL:個|个[ge4]
- outside of a city
- dawn; daybreak; to know; to let sb know; to make explicit
- used in 輾轉|辗转[zhan3 zhuan3]
- rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. [che4]); (coll.) the direction of traffic; a rhyme (of a song, poem etc); (dialect) (usu. after 有[you3] or 沒|没[mei2]) way; idea
- see 市南區|市南区[Shi4 nan2 Qu1]
- 泥 nì: 泥 ni4: restrained泥 ní: 泥 ni2: mud; clay; paste; pulp
- emissary; envoy
- handle
- document; official correspondence; secretary; secretariat
- to speak; to say
- imperial orders
- to turn a vehicle around; (computing) "carriage return" character; the "Enter" key; to hit the "Enter" key
- catty; (PRC) weight equal to 500 g; (Tw) weight equal to 600 g; (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g
- 匹 pǐ: 匹 pi3: (bound form) matching; comparable to; (bound form) alone; single; one of a pair; classifier for horses, mules etc (Taiwan pr. [pi1]); classifier for cloth: bolt; horsepower匹 pǐ: 匹 pi3: classifier for cloth: bolt
- 牛头 níu tóu: 牛头 niu2 tou2: ox head; ox-head shaped wine vessel牛头 Níu Tóu: 牛头 Niu2 Tou2: Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology
- Han Yu (768-824), Tang dynasty essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動|古文运动[gu3 wen2 yun4 dong4] and neoclassical 復古|复古[fu4 gu3] movements
- to restrain; to restrict; to keep down; or
- 估 gū: 估 gu1: to estimate估 gù: 估 gu4: used in 估衣[gu4 yi5]
- noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke
- 坊 fāng: 坊 fang1: lane (usually as part of a street name); memorial archway坊 Fāng: 坊 Fang1: surname Fang坊 fáng: 坊 fang2: workshop; mill; Taiwan pr. [fang1]
- to inspect; to review; to read; to peruse; to go through; to experience
- true or bogus; authenticity
- always; at all times; never (if used in negative sentence)
- money and things of value