Vocabulary: 草枕
- to set off by contrast; antithesis; analogy parallelism (linguistics)
- conspicuous; eye-catching; glamorous
- to come close; to get near to; front
- magnolia
- to make visible; to reveal; prominent; conspicuous; (prefix) phanero-
- silence; stillness
- (of skies or one's mood) gloomy
- senior; of a senior generation; to honor; to respect; honorific; classifier for cannons and statues; ancient wine vessel
- scholar
- strength of character; vigorous style (of calligraphy)
- 书 Shū: 书 Shu1: abbr. for 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]书 shū: 书 shu1: book; letter; document; CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4]; to write
- Han Chinese person or people
- to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture
- to read a book; to study; to attend school
- to practice writing characters
- high-quality ink stonemade in Duanxi and Guangdong
- to take out; to put out; to provide; to put forward (a proposal); to come up with (evidence)
- ink stone; ink slab; CL:方[fang1]
- approximately; probably
- twice as much; double the amount
- fish scales
- line; trace; mark; pattern; grain (of wood etc); to tattoo
- 皮 Pí: 皮 Pi2: surname Pi皮 pí: 皮 pi2: skin; peel; rind; outer layer; leather; hide; fur; cover; wrapping; outer covering; (of food) no longer crisp; soggy; (coll.) naughty; mischievous; pico- (10⁻¹²)
- calligraphic style; typeface; font
- (pron) everyone; Ladies and Gentlemen; Sirs
- cause; reason; interest; influence
- rare; uncommon; rare thing; rarity; to value as a rarity; to cherish; Taiwan pr. [xi1han3]
- to stop; to obstruct
- (idiom) to stand out from the crowd; distinctive; different from the rest
- Hiroshima (prefecture and city in Japan)
- personally; in person; oneself
- really; as expected; sure enough; if indeed...; if it's really...
- common people; laity (i.e. not priests)
- no trace of politeness; unrestrained (criticism)
- crude; gruff; rough; coarse
- to feign; to pretend to be; to pass oneself off as
- superior quality; high grade; top grade
- ugly; shameful; to ridicule