Vocabulary: 答周道通书
from 传习录
- 渠x1 | Chapter Rank #843how can it be that?surname Qu(artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL:條|条[tiao2]); (literary) big; great; (dialect) he; she; him; her; (old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe
- 张x1 | Chapter Rank #844surname Zhangto open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes
- 子x4 | Chapter Rank #282son; 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-noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
- 厚x1 | Chapter Rank #845thick; deep or profound; kind; generous; rich or strong in flavor; to favor; to stress
- 周敦颐x1 | Chapter Rank #846Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073), Song dynasty neo-Confucian scholar
- 太极图x1 | Chapter Rank #847diagram of cosmological scheme; Yin-Yang symbol ☯
- 惟x1 | Chapter Rank #848-ism; only
- 秀x1 | Chapter Rank #849(bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful; (bound form) superior; excellent; (loanword) show; (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears
- 灵x1 | Chapter Rank #850quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin
- 形x1 | Chapter Rank #851to appear; to look; form; shape
- 神x1 | Chapter Rank #852Godgod; deity; supernatural; magical; mysterious; spirit; mind; energy; lively; expressive; look; expression; (coll.) awesome; amazing
- 性x34 | Chapter Rank #10nature; 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]
- 感动x1 | Chapter Rank #853to move (sb); to touch (sb emotionally); moving
- 善恶x1 | Chapter Rank #854good and evil; good versus evil
- 万事x1 | Chapter Rank #855all things
- 定x1 | Chapter Rank #856to fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc); to congeal; to coagulate; (literary) definitely
- 中正x2 | Chapter Rank #512adopted name of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiang3 Jie4 shi2]fair and honest
- 仁义x2 | Chapter Rank #513benevolence and righteousnessaffable and even-tempered
- 原注x2 | Chapter Rank #514
- 欲x2 | Chapter Rank #515desire; appetite; passion; lust; greedto wish for; to desire
- 立x1 | Chapter Rank #857surname Lito stand; to set up; to establish; to lay down; to draw up; at once; immediately
- 极x5 | Chapter Rank #227extremely; pole (geography, physics); utmost; top
- 谢x3 | Chapter Rank #358surname Xieto thank; (bound form) to apologize; (bound form) to decline; to refuse; (bound form) (of flowers, leaves etc) to wither
- 曾经x4 | Chapter Rank #283once; already; former; previously; ever; (past tense marker used before verb or clause)
- 固然x1 | Chapter Rank #858admittedly (it's true that...)
- 认识x6 | Chapter Rank #192to know; to recognize; to be familiar with; to get acquainted with sb; knowledge; understanding; awareness; cognition
- 两者x1 | Chapter Rank #859both of them; the two of them
- 作为x3 | Chapter Rank #359one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be
- 整体x1 | Chapter Rank #860whole; entirety; overall; whole; general; on the whole; overall
- 恐怕x2 | Chapter Rank #516fear; to dread; I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe
- 堕落x2 | Chapter Rank #517to degrade; to degenerate; to become depraved; corrupt; a fall from grace
- 虚无x2 | Chapter Rank #518nothingness
- 执x1 | Chapter Rank #861to execute (a plan); to grasp
- 实有x1 | Chapter Rank #862
- 我的x4 | Chapter Rank #284
- 看法x1 | Chapter Rank #863way of looking at a thing; view; opinion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 还是x4 | Chapter Rank #285still (as before); had better; unexpectedly; or
- 所说x6 | Chapter Rank #193
- 提问x1 | Chapter Rank #864to question; to quiz; to grill
- 回答x2 | Chapter Rank #519to reply; to answer; reply; answer
- 意见x1 | Chapter Rank #865idea; opinion; suggestion; objection; complaint; CL:點|点[dian3],條|条[tiao2]
- 原本x5 | Chapter Rank #228originally; the original; original copy; original version
- 意旨x1 | Chapter Rank #866intent; intention; will
- 哪里x1 | Chapter Rank #867where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪裡|哪里where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment
- 呢x6 | Chapter Rank #194dense wool fabric (used for coats and jackets)(sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?"); (sentence-final particle) indicating that a state or situation still holds; (discourse particle) used to mark a slight pause or emphasis in speech
- 就是x9 | Chapter Rank #112exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if
- 感x2 | Chapter Rank #520to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~
- 所用x1 | Chapter Rank #868
- 功夫x2 | Chapter Rank #521skill; art; kung fu; labor; effort
- 即使x3 | Chapter Rank #360even if; even though