Vocabulary: 答顾东桥书
from 传习录
- 本体x8 | Chapter Rank #419main part; torso; the thing in itself; noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant)
- 如来x1 | Chapter Rank #1801tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc)
- 可见x3 | Chapter Rank #913it can clearly be seen (that this is the case); it is (thus) clear; clear; visible
- 略言之x1 | Chapter Rank #1802
- 虽x28 | Chapter Rank #109although; even though
- 弊x8 | Chapter Rank #420detriment; fraud; harm; defeat
- 发x1 | Chapter Rank #1803to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds)hair; Taiwan pr. [fa3]
- 如是x1 | Chapter Rank #1804thus
- 己x12 | Chapter Rank #288self; oneself; sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; sixth in order; letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; hexa
- 抑扬x2 | Chapter Rank #1157modulation (rising and falling pitch); intonation; a cadence; to rise and fall (of a body floating in water)
- 其间x8 | Chapter Rank #421in between; within that interval; in the meantime
- 姑x2 | Chapter Rank #1158paternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old); nun; for the time being (literary)
- 苟x4 | Chapter Rank #722(literary) if indeed; (bound form) careless; negligent; (bound form) temporarilysurname Gou
- 一时x8 | Chapter Rank #422a period of time; a while; for a short while; temporary; momentary; at the same time
- 效x3 | Chapter Rank #914effect; efficacy; to imitate
- 盖x22 | Chapter Rank #143surname Gelid; top; cover; canopy; to cover; to conceal; to build
- 失x7 | Chapter Rank #475to lose; to miss; to fail
- 夫x29 | Chapter Rank #105husband; man; manual worker; conscripted laborer (old)(classical) this, that; he, she, they; (exclamatory final particle); (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
- 吾x38 | Chapter Rank #68surname Wu(old) I; my
- 何物x1 | Chapter Rank #1805
- 性x25 | Chapter Rank #121nature; character; property; quality; attribute; sexuality; sex; gender; suffix forming adjective from verb; suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity; essence; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 理x91 | Chapter Rank #24texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up
- 孝亲x4 | Chapter Rank #723
- 孝x20 | Chapter Rank #161filial piety or obedience; mourning apparel
- 有忠君x2 | Chapter Rank #1159
- 忠x10 | Chapter Rank #339loyal; devoted; faithful
- 无忠君x1 | Chapter Rank #1806
- 晦x6 | Chapter Rank #521(bound form) last day of a lunar month; (bound form) dark; gloomy; (literary) night
- 庵x3 | Chapter Rank #915hut; small temple; nunnery
- 之所以x19 | Chapter Rank #170(after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P; Example: 我之所以討厭他|我之所以讨厌他[wo3 zhi1 suo3 yi3 tao3 yan4 ta1] "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)"
- 主x6 | Chapter Rank #522owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games)
- 一身x4 | Chapter Rank #724whole body; from head to toe; single person; a suit of clothes
- 实x19 | Chapter Rank #171real; true; honest; really; solid; fruit; seed; definitely
- 管x5 | Chapter Rank #621surname Guanto take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把[ba3] in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards
- 天下x69 | Chapter Rank #30land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule
- 散x2 | Chapter Rank #1160to scatter; to break up (a meeting etc); to disperse; to disseminate; to dispel; (coll.) to sackscattered; loose; to come loose; to fall apart; leisurely; powdered medicine
- 万事x2 | Chapter Rank #1161all things
- 不外乎x2 | Chapter Rank #1162nothing else but
- 一分x2 | Chapter Rank #1163
- 合x7 | Chapter Rank #476to close; to join; to fit; to be equal to; whole; together; round (in battle); conjunction (astronomy); 1st note of pentatonic scale100 ml; one-tenth of a peck; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗
- 之间x12 | Chapter Rank #289(after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 彈指之間|弹指之间[tan2 zhi3 zhi1 jian1])
- 启x2 | Chapter Rank #1164to open; to start; to initiate; to enlighten or awaken; to state; to informQi son of Yu the Great 禹[Yu3], reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝[Xia4 Chao2] (c. 2070-c. 1600 BC)
- 心理x4 | Chapter Rank #725psychology; mentality
- 患x1 | Chapter Rank #1807to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune; trouble; danger; worry
- 由x3 | Chapter Rank #916to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...
- 不知x20 | Chapter Rank #162not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
- 以求x16 | Chapter Rank #215in order to
- 告x20 | Chapter Rank #163(bound form) to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue
- 子x37 | Chapter Rank #75noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- 孟子x43 | Chapter Rank #62Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 BC), Confucian philosopher second only to Confucius; book of the same name, one of the classics of Confucianism