Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- high; rugged mountains; steep
- 洞 dòng: 洞 dong4: cave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers); CL:個|个[ge4]洞 tóng: 洞 tong2: used in 洪洞[Hong2 tong2] (the name of a place in Shanxi)
- to overlap; to superimpose; to telescope; to run together; to duplicate; one over another; superposition; an overlap; redundancy; reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步[san4 san4 bu4] to have a stroll)
- profound; remote
- 呀 yā: 呀 ya1: ah (used to express surprise); (onom.) creaking呀 ya: 呀 ya5: (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt)
- form; structure; design
- complexion
- to hone (a knife)
- grind; sandstone
- to pound; to beat; to hull; to attack; to disturb; to stir
- anvil
- 伊 Yī: 伊 Yi1: surname Yi伊 yī: 伊 yi1: (old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she"); second person singular pronoun ("you"); (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she"); (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning; (preceding a noun) that; (bound form) Iraq (abbr. for 伊拉克[Yi1 la1 ke4]); (bound form) Iran (abbr. for 伊朗[Yi1 lang3])
- to concentrate; to condense; (nuclear energy) to enrich; espresso coffee (abbr. for 意式濃縮咖啡|意式浓缩咖啡[Yi4 shi4 nong2 suo1 ka1 fei1])
- Mt Hua in Shaanxi, western mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4]
- 名山 Míng shān: 名山 Ming2 shan1: see 名山區|名山区[Ming2 shan1 Qu1]名山 míng shān: 名山 ming2 shan1: famous mountain
- stone; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- white lotus (flower); White Lotus society; same as 白蓮教|白莲教
- to bend at the waist; to bow; (fig.) to bow to; to submit
- 板 bǎn: 板 ban3: board; plank; plate; shutter; table tennis bat; clappers (music); CL:塊|块[kuai4]; accented beat in Chinese music; hard; stiff; to stop smiling or look serious板 pàn: 板 pan4: to catch sight of in a doorway (old)板 bǎn: 板 ban3: used in 老闆|老板[lao3 ban3]
- short; dwarfish
- high and steep
- see 句容市[Ju4 rong2 Shi4]
- cactus
- whetstone (for honing knives)
- (bound form) to die prematurely (also pr. [yao3]); (literary) (of vegetation) luxuriant
- gale; squall; whole gale (meteorology)
- in hundred and one ways; in every possible way; by every means
- flower; fresh flowers; CL:朵[duo3]
- in full bloom
- confident and at ease; free and easy
- to manage to sell; to dispose of sth (by selling); to get property off one's hands; to find excuses (to get off a charge); to extricate sb (from trouble); to vindicate; to become prettier (of child)
- pretty and flirtatious
- (onom.) twittering of birds; whispering; murmuring
- to chat with a low voice
- lazy
- lethargic