Vocabulary: 答顾东桥书
from 传习录
- 稷x11 | Chapter Rank #323millet; God of cereals worshiped by ancient rulers; minister of agriculture
- 遍x4 | Chapter Rank #826everywhere; all over; classifier for actions: one time
- 二十x2 | Chapter Rank #1445twenty; 20
- 循x1 | Chapter Rank #2266to follow; to adhere to; to abide by
- 曲x4 | Chapter Rank #827tune; song; CL:支[zhi1]bent; crooked; wrongsurname Qufermentation starter; leaven (molds, yeasts or bacteria used in fermenting soy products or brewing etc); Taiwan pr. [qu2]
- 星x2 | Chapter Rank #1446star; heavenly body; satellite; small amount
- 术x10 | Chapter Rank #360various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lanceamethod; technique
- 浅陋x2 | Chapter Rank #1447shallow and crude; meager (knowledge or skill)
- 步x2 | Chapter Rank #1448a step; a pace; walk; march; stages in a process; situationsurname Bu
- 占x2 | Chapter Rank #1449to observe; to divineto take possession of; to occupy; to take up
- 候x2 | Chapter Rank #1450to wait; to inquire after; to watch; season; climate; (old) period of five days
- 忒x1 | Chapter Rank #2267(dialect) too; very; also pr. [tui1]to err; to change
- 尤为x1 | Chapter Rank #2268especially
- 佞人x2 | Chapter Rank #1451
- 谀x2 | Chapter Rank #1452to flatter
- 媚x2 | Chapter Rank #1453(bound form) to flatter; (bound form) charming
- 夸x2 | Chapter Rank #1454used in transliterationto boast; to exaggerate; to praise
- 侈x3 | Chapter Rank #1050extravagant; wasteful; exaggerating
- 荡x1 | Chapter Rank #2269to wash; to squander; to sweep away; to move; to shake; dissolute; pond
- 靡x4 | Chapter Rank #828to waste (money)extravagant; go with fashion; not
- 费x2 | Chapter Rank #1455to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expensessurname Fei
- 欺天罔人x4 | Chapter Rank #829
- 无耻x2 | Chapter Rank #1456without any sense of shame; unembarrassed; shameless
- 司马相如x5 | Chapter Rank #680
- 讥x2 | Chapter Rank #1457to ridicule
- 二十一x2 | Chapter Rank #1458
- 儒者x4 | Chapter Rank #830Confucian scholar
- 圣者x1 | Chapter Rank #2270holy one; saint
- 为生x1 | Chapter Rank #2271to make a living
- 知之者x4 | Chapter Rank #831
- 求知x1 | Chapter Rank #2272anxious to learn; keen for knowledge
- 希x3 | Chapter Rank #1051to hope; to admire
- 方x1 | Chapter Rank #2273square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic metersurname Fang
- 稍为x1 | Chapter Rank #2274
- 未及x1 | Chapter Rank #2275to not have had time; to have not yet; not to touch upon
- 拔本塞源x11 | Chapter Rank #324
- 二十二x2 | Chapter Rank #1459
- 辞x1 | Chapter Rank #2276to resign; to dismiss; to decline; (literary) to take leave; (archaic poetic genre) ballad
- 五帝x1 | Chapter Rank #2277the Five Legendary Emperors, usually taken to be the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4], Zhuanxu 顓頊|颛顼[Zhuan1 xu1], Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4], Tang Yao 唐堯|唐尧[Tang2 Yao2] and Yu Shun 虞舜[Yu2 Shun4]
- 本纪x4 | Chapter Rank #832biographic sketch of an emperor
- 燕x2 | Chapter Rank #1460Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei; the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409–436); surname Yanswallow (family Hirundinidae)
- 召x1 | Chapter Rank #2278surname Shao; name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Provinceto call together; to summon; to convene; temple or monastery (used in place names in Inner Mongolia)
- 世家x2 | Chapter Rank #1461family influential for generations; aristocratic family
- 殷x1 | Chapter Rank #2279flourishing; abundant; earnest; hospitabledark redroll of thundersurname Yin; dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after its move to Yinxu 殷墟[Yin1 xu1] in present-day Henan
- 项羽x1 | Chapter Rank #2280Xiang Yu the Conqueror (232-202 BC), warlord defeated by first Han emperor
- 周公之x1 | Chapter Rank #2281
- 鲁x1 | Chapter Rank #2282(bound form) crass; stupid; rude; (used to represent the sounds of "ru", "lu" etc in loanwords)surname Lu; Lu, an ancient state of China 魯國|鲁国[Lu3 guo2]; short name for Shandong 山東|山东[Shan1 dong1]
- 王莽x4 | Chapter Rank #833Wang Mang (45 BC-23 AD), usurped power and reigned 9-23 between the former and later Han
- 汉书x1 | Chapter Rank #2283History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Ban Gu 班固[Ban1 Gu4] in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
- 曹操x3 | Chapter Rank #1052Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义