Vocabulary: 菜根谭
- cannot bear to
- thought; idea; intention
- organism; living creature; life form; biological; CL:個|个[ge4]
- moral integrity; unflinching righteousness
- to support; to prop up; to push or move with a pole; to maintain; to open or unfurl; to fill to bursting point; brace; stay; support
- day; sky; heaven
- pillar
- nobleman; person of noble character
- lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures; CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1]; (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic
- ant
- disabled; maimed; crippled; (of objects) damaged
- to have a voracious desire for; to covet; greedy; corrupt
- 冒 Mào: 冒 Mao4: surname Mao冒 mào: 冒 mao4: to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; (bound form) reckless; to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign; (literary) to cover
- 可 kè: 可 ke4: used in 可汗[ke4 han2]可 kě: 可 ke3: (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very; but; however
- all things; all that exists
- heaven and earth; world; scope; field of activity
- to push aside; to part; to brush away
- on earth
- one's mind
- ice; CL:塊|块[kuai4]; to chill sth; (of an object or substance) to feel cold; (of a person) cold; unfriendly; (slang) methamphetamine
- to be fearful; apprehensive
- central point; in one's thoughts; in one's heart
- vulgar; stingy; miserly; mean
- before one's eyes; now; at present
- moon; month; monthly; CL:個|个[ge4],輪|轮[lun2]
- wind; news; style; custom; manner; CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]
- (detectable) movement; (sign of) activity; movement and stillness
- (literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass; (bound form) different; (bound form) special; remarkable; (literary) very; extremely
- to grasp; to hold; to operate; to manage; to control; to steer; to exercise; to drill (practice); to play; to speak (a language)
- clamor; noise
- silent; solitary; Taiwan pr. [ji2]
- still (as before); had better; unexpectedly; or
- to refine; to smelt
- unripe
- mind; state of mind; attention; (Chinese medicine) psychic constitution
- to obscure; to confuse; to mix up; to blur; to mislead
- ear; handle (archaeology); and that is all (Classical Chinese)
- to exist; to deposit; to store; to keep; to survive
- to cultivate (personal qualities); (of forests etc) to support; to provide a suitable environment for the replenishment of (natural resources: groundwater, animals, plants etc)
- 云 yún: 云 yun2: (classical) to say云 yún: 云 yun2: cloud; CL:朵[duo3]云 Yún: 云 Yun2: surname Yun; short name for Yunnan 雲南|云南[Yun2 nan2]
- to stop; to prohibit; until; only