Vocabulary: 菜根谭
- 并 bìng: 并 bing4: and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge并 bìng: 并 bing4: to combine; to amalgamate并 Bīng: 并 Bing1: short name for Taiyuan 太原[Tai4 yuan2]
- to be mindful; to pay attention to; to take note of
- fame; reputation; honor; honorary; emeritus (of retired professor)
- to go (to visit a superior); one's current attainment in learning or art
- to entrust; to place in sb's care; (bound form) to depend on; to attach oneself to; to reside temporarily; (bound form) foster (as in 寄女[ji4 nu : 3] foster daughter); to send by post; to mail
- to recite; to sing (of poetry)
- cultured; sophisticated
- mercy
- 屠 Tú: 屠 Tu2: surname Tu屠 tú: 屠 tu2: to slaughter (animals for food); to massacre
- to amputate; to cut off; also pr. [kuai4]
- disloyalty; half-heartedness; duplicity
- 封 Fēng: 封 Feng1: surname Feng封 fēng: 封 feng1: to confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to seal; classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters
- 经 Jīng: 经 Jing1: surname Jing经 jīng: 经 jing1: classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 經濟|经济[jing1 ji4]
- (bound form) country; nation; state
- 段 duàn: 段 duan4: paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc段 Duàn: 段 Duan4: surname Duan
- to fall; to sink; (fig.) to degenerate
- crisis
- liver (CL:葉|叶[ye4]); (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game); (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy
- kidney
- not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing
- 发 fā: 发 fa1: to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds)发 fà: 发 fa4: hair; Taiwan pr. [fa3]
- 得罪 dé zùi: 得罪 de2 zui4: to commit an offense; to violate the law; excuse me! (formal); see also 得罪[de2 zui5]得罪 dé zui: 得罪 de2 zui5: to offend sb; to make a faux pas; a faux pas; see also 得罪[de2 zui4]
- bright; shining; glittering; to become clear
- outstanding; notable; remarkable; statistically significant
- dusky
- (idiom) unconsciously; unwittingly
- oversensitive; suspicious
- to punish; to handle; to deal with (literary)
- the world in chaos; troubled times; (in Buddhism) the mortal world
- uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2]
- 季 jì: 季 ji4: season; the last month of a season; fourth or youngest amongst brothers; classifier for seasonal crop yields季 Jì: 季 Ji4: surname Ji
- perimeter; range; (within) a radius of ...
- philanthropist; charitable person; well-doer
- evil person; vile creature; villain; (archaic) ugly person