Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- disaster; calamity
- beams in roof; confused
- start and development; thread (of a story); general outline; clue
- surname Ji; name of a mountain
- (literary) prison
- (bound form) shame; humiliation; disgrace
- body and soul; physical and spiritual; material form and internal spirit
- to destroy; to stop
- 戮 lù: 戮 lu4: to peel with a knife戮 lù: 戮 lu4: (bound form) to kill
- disgrace; dishonor; to insult; to bring disgrace or humiliation to; to be indebted to; self-deprecating; Taiwan pr. [ru4]
- to spread wings and fly
- beautiful; open-work silk
- bridle; halter; to restrain; to detain; to lodge; inn
- 鞅 yàng: 鞅 yang4: wooden yoke for a draft ox鞅 yāng: 鞅 yang1: martingale (part of a horse's harness); used in 鞅鞅[yang1 yang1]
- difficult; hard; hardship
- 檀 Tán: 檀 Tan2: surname Tan檀 tán: 檀 tan2: sandalwood; hardwood; purple-red
- portion; part of; subset
- to descend; to arrive; to come
- Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4], known as the father of Chinese historiography
- example; precedent; rule; case; instance
- intellectual; intelligentsia
- in the depth of one's soul
- complex (psychology)
- the Warring States period (475-221 BC); Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century)
- the state of Chu, one of the most important of the small states contending for power in China between 770 and 223 BC, located around present-day Hubei
- thinker
- to set up; to install
- criminal law
- Miluo River in Hunan province, tributary of the Xiang River 湘江[Xiang1 Jiang1], flows into Dongting Lake 洞庭湖[Dong4 ting2 Hu2]
- to kill oneself; to commit suicide; to attempt suicide
- historian
- castration (archaic punishment)
- prison
- uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2]
- Three 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
- 谯 Qiáo: 谯 Qiao2: surname Qiao谯 qiáo: 谯 qiao2: drum tower谯 qiào: 谯 qiao4: ridicule; to blame
- zero; 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
- prison; jail
- surname Lu; place name
- surname Ying; river in Henan and Anhui
- to rise; to originate; source; derivation
- Huai 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]