Vocabulary: 前言
from 帝范 臣轨 庭训格言(精)
- 但x5 | Chapter Rank #75but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just
- 新唐书x2 | Chapter Rank #179History of the Later Tang Dynasty, seventeenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ou1 yang2 Xiu1] and Song Qi 宋祁[Song4 Qi2] in 1060 during Northern Song 北宋[Bei3 Song4], 225 scrolls
- 艺文志x3 | Chapter Rank #122
- 却说x1 | Chapter Rank #372
- 作者x1 | Chapter Rank #373author; writer
- 元万顷x3 | Chapter Rank #123
- 范x12 | Chapter Rank #22pattern; model; examplesurname Fan
- 履x2 | Chapter Rank #180shoe; to tread on
- 冰x2 | Chapter Rank #181ice; CL:塊|块[kuai4]; to chill sth; (of an object or substance) to feel cold; (of a person) cold; unfriendly; (slang) methamphetamine
- 苗x1 | Chapter Rank #374sproutsurname Miao; Miao ethnic group
- 神x1 | Chapter Rank #375god; deity; supernatural; magical; mysterious; spirit; mind; energy; lively; expressive; look; expression; (coll.) awesome; amazingGod
- 客x1 | Chapter Rank #376customer; visitor; guest; classifier for servings or portions (when ordering food)
- 周x9 | Chapter Rank #32surname Zhou; Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BC)to make a circuit; to circle; circle; circumference; lap; cycle; complete; all; all over; thorough; to help financiallyweek; weekly
- 思x2 | Chapter Rank #182to think; to consider
- 茂x2 | Chapter Rank #183luxuriant; (chemistry) cyclopentadiene
- 胡x1 | Chapter Rank #377surname Hunon-Han people, esp. from central Asia; reckless; outrageous; what?; why?; to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和[hu2])used in 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]beard; mustache; whiskers
- 楚x1 | Chapter Rank #378distinct; clear; orderly; pain; suffering; deciduous bush used in Chinese medicine (genus Vitex); punishment cane (old)surname Chu; abbr. for Hubei 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3] and Hunan 湖南省[Hu2 nan2 Sheng3] provinces together; Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (722–221 BC)
- 宾x1 | Chapter Rank #379visitor; guest; object (in grammar)
- 卫x2 | Chapter Rank #184to guard; to protect; to defend; abbr. for 衛生|卫生, hygiene; health; abbr. for 衛生間|卫生间, toiletsurname Wei; vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1066–221 BC), located in present-day Henan and Hebei Provinces
- 业x1 | Chapter Rank #380line of business; industry; occupation; job; employment; school studies; enterprise; property; (Buddhism) karma; deed; to engage in; alreadysurname Ye
- 资治通鉴x2 | Chapter Rank #185A Mirror for the Wise Ruler (or Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government), a vast chronological general history, written by 司馬光|司马光[Si1 ma3 Guang1] Sima Guang (1019-1089) and collaborators during the Northern Song in 1084, covering the period 403 BC-959 AD, 294 scrolls
- 天x7 | Chapter Rank #41day; sky; heaven
- 后x10 | Chapter Rank #27empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; rulersurname Houback; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post-
- 多x7 | Chapter Rank #42many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-
- 引x4 | Chapter Rank #100to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
- 文学x2 | Chapter Rank #186literature
- 士x2 | Chapter Rank #187member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor; honorific; soldier; noncommissioned officer; specialist workersurname Shi
- 郎x2 | Chapter Rank #188(arch.) minister; official; noun prefix denoting function or status; a youthsurname Lang
- 左x1 | Chapter Rank #381surname Zuoleft; the Left (politics); east; unorthodox; queer; wrong; differing; opposite
- 史x1 | Chapter Rank #382surname Shihistory; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China
- 刘x3 | Chapter Rank #124(classical) a type of battle-ax; to kill; to slaughtersurname Liu
- 祎x3 | Chapter Rank #125excellent; precious; rare; fine; (used in given names)
- 使x5 | Chapter Rank #76to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- 撰x10 | Chapter Rank #28to compose; to compile
- 列女x1 | Chapter Rank #383
- 传x10 | Chapter Rank #29to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity)biography; historical narrative; commentaries; relay station
- 百x5 | Chapter Rank #77surname Baihundred; numerous; all kinds of
- 僚x5 | Chapter Rank #78surname Liaobureaucrat; colleague
- 新x3 | Chapter Rank #126abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xin1 jiang1]; abbr. for Singapore 新加坡[Xin1 jia1 po1]; surname Xinnew; newly; meso- (chemistry)
- 戒x1 | Chapter Rank #384to guard against; to exhort; to admonish or warn; to give up or stop doing sth; Buddhist monastic discipline; ring (for a finger)
- 乐x1 | Chapter Rank #385happy; cheerful; to laughused in place namessurname Lesurname Yuemusic
- 书x11 | Chapter Rank #26book; letter; document; CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4]; to writeabbr. for 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]
- 凡x1 | Chapter Rank #386ordinary; commonplace; mundane; temporal; of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels); every; all; whatever; altogether; gist; outline; note of Chinese musical scale
- 千余x1 | Chapter Rank #387
- 卷x2 | Chapter Rank #189scroll; book; volume; chapter; examination paper; classifier for books, paintings: volume, scrollto roll up; (fig.) to sweep up; to engulf; to drag into (a situation); (slang) to compete to an unhealthy degree; hypercompetitive; a roll; classifier for small rolled-up things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)to roll up; to sweep up; to carry along; a roll; classifier for rolls, spools etc
- 则x15 | Chapter Rank #18(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items
- 皇后x3 | Chapter Rank #127empress; imperial consort
- 本纪x3 | Chapter Rank #128biographic sketch of an emperor
- 亦x6 | Chapter Rank #57also
- 云x6 | Chapter Rank #58(classical) to saycloud; CL:朵[duo3]surname Yun; short name for Yunnan 雲南|云南[Yun2 nan2]