Vocabulary: 菜根谭
- outline; introduction; survey; general discussion
- sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old); classifier for written items: chapter, article
- a load on one's mind; worry; CL:宗[zong1],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- talent; CL:份[fen4]
- contain
- ordinary; average; medium; mid-range; moderate
- speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths; home truths (that one does not want to hear)
- to devote oneself to spiritual development (esp. Buddhism or Daoism); to devote oneself to perfecting one's art or craft
- sweet-sounding; beautiful (of sound)
- rapid; quick; speed; rate; soon; almost; to make haste; clever; sharp (of knives or wits); forthright; plainspoken; gratified; pleased; pleasant
- 把 bǎ: 把 ba3: to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb})把 bà: 把 ba4: handle
- 埋 mái: 埋 mai2: to bury埋 mán: 埋 man2: used in 埋怨[man2 yuan4]
- strong wind; gale
- 怒 Nù: 怒 Nu4: Nu ethnic group怒 nù: 怒 nu4: anger; fury; flourishing; vigorous
- vegetation; plants
- 辛 Xīn: 辛 Xin1: surname Xin辛 xīn: 辛 xin1: (of taste) hot or pungent; hard; laborious; suffering; eighth in order; eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 285°; octa
- magical; mystical; miraculous
- (of talent) outstanding; exceptional
- in the dead of night (idiom)
- ashamed
- used in 忸怩[niu3 ni2]
- 成功 chéng gōng: 成功 cheng2 gong1: to succeed; success; successful; fruitful成功 Chéng gōng: 成功 Cheng2 gong1: Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[Tai2 dong1 Xian4], southeast Taiwan
- name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album
- mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- amaranth (genus Amaranthus); Joseph's coat (Amaranthus tricolor); Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus)
- clear as ice and clean as jade (idiom); spotless; irreproachable; incorruptible
- imperial robe
- 衣 yī: 衣 yi1: clothes; CL:件[jian4]; Kangxi radical 145衣 yì: 衣 yi4: to dress; to wear; to put on (clothes)
- fine foods
- 丧 sāng: 丧 sang1: mourning; funeral; (old) corpse丧 sàng: 丧 sang4: to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc); to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc); to die; disappointed; discouraged
- wild herb; potherb
- young and tender; (of food) tender; lightly cooked; (of color) light; (of a person) inexperienced; unskilled
- to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- to make a general reference; to be used in a general sense
- coarse
- greens; vegetables; vegetable side dish