Vocabulary: 菜根谭
- scops owl
- owl (order Strigiformes)
- yeah (interjection of approval); to belch
- influential officials; bigwigs
- (literary) to run friskily (of a horse); to raise; to hold high
- to fight; fight; war; battle
- cool eye; fig. detached; (treating) with indifference
- to assemble; to gather (transitive or intransitive); (chemistry) poly-
- 血 xiě: 血 xie3: see 血[xue4]血 xuè: 血 xue4: blood; colloquial pr. [xie3]; CL:滴[di1],片[pian4]
- to swarm; to rise in masses
- (bound form) hedgehog
- to be published; to come out
- to give in to; to be swayed by (personal considerations etc); Taiwan pr. [xun2]; to follow; to expose publicly
- to study on one's own; self-study
- martyr
- the (rightful) emperor; "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation)
- 国 gúo: 国 guo2: country; nation; state; (bound form) national国 Gúo: 国 Guo2: surname Guo
- 号 háo: 号 hao2: (bound form) to wail; to howl号 hào: 号 hao4: (literary) to call out; to command; (bound form) bugle; trumpet; (bound form) signal; bugle call (e.g. 起床號|起床号[qi3 chuang2 hao4]); (bound form) mark; sign; to mark; to label; to assign a number; (bound form) name; appellation (e.g. 國號|国号[guo2 hao4], 年號|年号[nian2 hao4], 遼寧號|辽宁号[Liao2 ning2 Hao4]); (after a numeral) number designation (e.g. 237號房間|237号房间[er4 san1 qi1 hao4 fang2 jian1] "Room 237"); day of the month (e.g. 七號|七号[qi1 hao4] "the 7th"); (bound form) size; type; category (e.g. 五號電池|五号电池[wu3 hao4 dian4 chi2]); (TCM) to feel (the pulse) (used in 號脈|号脉[hao4 mai4]); classifier for numbered people or items
- (literary) cooked food; breakfast
- (literary) supper
- food
- 康 kāng: 康 kang1: healthy; peaceful; abundant康 Kāng: 康 Kang1: surname Kang
- to be engrossed; to be absorbed with; to lose oneself in; to be addicted to
- silk; thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a trace (of smoke etc), a tiny bit etc
- able to; so that sb can; enabling; in order to; finally in a position to; with sth in view
- to spread out; to develop; to overflow; to amplify; superfluous
- ethical norms governing human relationships
- all things
- eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]); (often used with 一[yi1]) a look; a glance; small hole; (bound form) salient point; classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc
- all different; each unto his own
- to part; to leave each other; to distinguish; to tell apart; difference; distinction; in different ways; differently; separately; individually; respectively
- to select; to make one's choice; to decide what to accept and what to reject
- (Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)
- carrying very little luggage (idiom); honest and incorruptible (government officials)
- Mara (the demon of temptation)
- unfinished; outstanding (business); unfulfilled
- (bound form) Buddhist monk (abbr. for 僧伽[seng1 qie2])
- layman; layperson; original home of a monk
- slaughterhouse; abattoir
- meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute; Kangxi radical 130
- earth; mother earth