Vocabulary: 菜根谭
- intoxicated
- 禅 chán: 禅 chan2: dhyana (Sanskrit); Zen; meditation (Buddhism)禅 shàn: 禅 shan4: to abdicate
- drinking vessel; wine cup
- yin and yang
- to encounter; to rendezvous; to converge; to meet (a payment)
- 兴 xìng: 兴 xing4: feeling or desire to do sth; interest in sth; excitement兴 Xīng: 兴 Xing1: surname Xing兴 xīng: 兴 xing1: to rise; to flourish; to become popular; to start; to encourage; to get up; (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect); maybe (dialect)
- to pass out drunk
- coverlet; quilt
- (bound form) pillow; to rest one's head on (Taiwan pr. [zhen4])
- 磐石 pán shí: 磐石 pan2 shi2: boulder磐石 Pán shí: 磐石 Pan2 shi2: see 磐石市[Pan2 shi2 Shi4]
- then and now; ancient and modern
- 属 shǔ: 属 shu3: category; genus (taxonomy); family members; dependents; to belong to; subordinate to; affiliated with; be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals); to be; to prove to be; to constitute属 zhǔ: 属 zhu3: to join together; to fix one's attention on; to concentrate on
- mayfly
- tall and strongly built; stalwart; courageous
- (bound form) hungry
- 饮 yìn: 饮 yin4: to give (animals) water to drink饮 yǐn: 饮 yin3: to drink
- to peck
- fowl; chicken; CL:隻|只[zhi1]; (slang) prostitute
- duck
- to compete; to contend; to struggle
- 偃 Yǎn: 偃 Yan3: surname Yan偃 yǎn: 偃 yan3: to lie supine; to stop; to fall down
- 蹇 jiǎn: 蹇 jian3: lame; cripple; unfortunate; slow; difficult; nag (inferior horse); donkey; lame horse蹇 Jiǎn: 蹇 Jian3: surname Jian
- 丰 fēng: 丰 feng1: luxuriant; buxom; appearance; charm丰 fēng: 丰 feng1: abundant; plentiful; fertile; plump; great丰 Fēng: 丰 Feng1: surname Feng
- duck (CL:隻|只[zhi1]); (slang) male prostitute
- erect; towering; to stand tall
- unaffected; unpretentious; (literary) brightly colored; vibrant
- music and song (formal writing)
- (bound form) to gallop; to prance; (bound form) to soar; to hover; to make room; to clear out; to vacate; (verb suffix indicating repeated action)
- to boil
- equivalent to either 是[shi4] or 就是[jiu4 shi4]
- land of fantasy; fairyland
- to wash; to squander; to sweep away; to move; to shake; dissolute; pond
- to take to the woods to become an outlaw; (dialect) to be born (Etymology: in former times, a bed of straw or grass was used as padding during childbirth)
- some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er
- sack; tube open at both ends; (onom.) footsteps
- flute; key
- person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting
- 宗 Zōng: 宗 Zong1: surname Zong宗 zōng: 宗 zong1: school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs
- to smelt metal
- a forced draft (of wind, for smelting metal); blast (in blast furnace); bellows; to draw air using bellows