Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- 索 sǔo: 索 suo3: to search; to demand; to ask; to exact; large rope; isolated索 Sǔo: 索 Suo3: surname Suo; abbr. for 索馬里|索马里[Suo3 ma3 li3], Somalia
- foot; leg (of an animal or an object); base (of an object); CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]; classifier for kicks
- 价 jiè: 价 jie4: (literary) messenger; servant价 jià: 价 jia4: price; value; (chemistry) valence价 jie: 价 jie5: particle used between an adverb and a verb or adjective; (dialect) particle used after a negative adverb such as 不[bu4] or 別|别[bie2] without any other following element
- to go (to visit a superior); one's current attainment in learning or art
- to return empty-handed; to fail to win anything
- donkey; CL:頭|头[tou2]
- to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc)
- 柴 Chái: 柴 Chai2: surname Chai柴 chái: 柴 chai2: firewood; lean (of meat); thin (of a person)
- thin, tough silk fabric
- to invite; to request; to intercept; to solicit; to seek
- to weep; to shed tears
- 付 Fù: 付 Fu4: surname Fu付 fù: 付 fu4: to pay; to hand over to; classifier for pairs or sets of things
- father and mother; parents
- 殴 ōu: 殴 Ou1: surname Ou殴 ōu: 殴 ou1: to beat up; to hit sb
- to capture
- to change; to modify
- open; overt; public; to make public; to release
- to plunder; to rob
- see 昌黎縣|昌黎县[Chang1 li2 Xian4]
- (of descriptions, writing etc) vivid; lively
- to unfold before one's eyes; to emerge; to reveal; to display
- news; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- to crystallize; crystallization; crystal; crystalline; (fig.) the fruit (of labor etc)
- profile; appearance
- to copy (a model of calligraphy or painting etc)
- individually; one by one; just one or two; exceptional; rare
- to isolate; isolated; unrelated; irrelevant
- miniature version of sth; microcosm; epitome; (Tw) to microfilm
- hasp; pendant
- daytime; sun; time
- Kansai region, Japan; Guanxi or Kuanhsi town in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县[Xin1 zhu2 Xian4], northwest Taiwan
- important general; generalissimo
- last year
- money; currency
- newcomer; new recruit; fresh talent; newlywed, esp. new bride; newlywed couple; bride and groom; (paleoanthropology) later-period Homo sapiens
- to welcome (a visitor or newcomer); (fig.) to usher in
- a thorn in one's eye; fig. a thorn in one's flesh
- (bound form) to cry; to weep loudly; (bound form) (of a bird or animal) to crow; to hoot; to screech
- graceful; tactful