Vocabulary: 白居易诗选
- 儿 r: 儿 r5: non-syllabic diminutive suffix; retroflex final儿 ér: 儿 er2: child; son
- 能 néng: 能 neng2: can; to be able to; might possibly; ability; (physics) energy能 Néng: 能 Neng2: surname Neng
- to sing; to call loudly; to chant
- pipa, Chinese lute, with 4 strings, a large pear-shaped body and a fretted fingerboard
- Qing dynasty person
- 赵 Zhào: 赵 Zhao4: surname Zhao; one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476–220 BC); the Former Zhao 前趙|前赵[Qian2 Zhao4] (304–329) and Later Zhao 後趙|后赵[Hou4 Zhao4] (319–350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms赵 zhào: 赵 zhao4: to surpass (old)
- 翼 yì: 翼 yi4: wing; area surrounding the bullseye of a target; to assist; one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy翼 Yì: 翼 Yi4: surname Yi; alternative name for 絳|绛[Jiang4], the capital of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period (770–475 BC)
- to become fashionable; to catch on; to be popular
- the whole world; throughout the land; everything under the sun
- a genius (literally, an immortal who has been banished from heaven to live on earth), an epithet for exceptional individuals such as the Tang poet Li Bai 李白[Li3 Bai2]; (fig.) banished official
- that's all; nothing more
- 盖 Gě: 盖 Ge3: surname Ge盖 gài: 盖 gai4: lid; top; cover; canopy; to cover; to conceal; to build
- to get one's name; named (after sth)
- Yi Zhuan, commentary on the "Book of Changes" or "I Ching" 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]
- exquisite
- word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝[Song4 chao2] (CL:首[shou3])
- to be in love; sentient beings (Buddhism)
- lit. you can sing or you can cry (idiom); fig. deeply moving; happy and sad; inspiring and tragic
- cannot; should not; must not
- married woman
- woman; female
- 乐 Yuè: 乐 Yue4: surname Yue乐 yuè: 乐 yue4: music乐 lè: 乐 le4: happy; cheerful; to laugh乐 lào: 乐 lao4: used in place names乐 Lè: 乐 Le4: surname Le
- to read aloud; to recite
- to get round fast; to spread like wildfire
- to spread widely
- land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule
- to help; to assist
- 无 mó: 无 mo2: used in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]无 wú: 无 wu2: not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less
- omnibus; complete works (of a writer or artist)
- to last forever; eternal; enduring
- moreover; situation
- work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labor
- and; moreover; yet; for the time being; to be about to; both (... and...)
- 瓯 ōu: 瓯 ou1: (pottery) bowl or drinking vessel瓯 ōu: 瓯 Ou1: old name for Wenzhou City 溫州市|温州市[Wen1 zhou1 shi4] in Zhejiang 浙江[Zhe4 jiang1]
- north; (classical) to be defeated
- notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old); a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties
- 卷 juàn: 卷 juan4: scroll; book; volume; chapter; examination paper; classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll卷 juǎn: 卷 juan3: to roll up; (fig.) to sweep up; to engulf; to drag into (a situation); (slang) to compete to an unhealthy degree; hypercompetitive; a roll; classifier for small rolled-up things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)卷 juǎn: 卷 juan3: to roll up; to sweep up; to carry along; a roll; classifier for rolls, spools etc
- to embody; to reflect; to incarnate
- tallest; highest; supreme (court etc)
- accomplishment; success; achievement; CL:個|个[ge4]; to achieve (a result); to create; to bring about
- Tang Emperor Xuanzong (685-762), also known as Emperor Ming of Tang 唐明皇[Tang2 Ming2 huang2], reign name of seventh Tang emperor 李隆基[Li3 Long1 ji1], reigned 712-756
- Yang Guifei (719-756), famous Tang beauty, consort of Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗[Tang2 Xuan2 zong1]