Vocabulary: 订书匠
- 琢磨 zúo mo: 琢磨 zuo2 mo5: to ponder; to mull over; to think through; Taiwan pr. [zhuo2 mo2]琢磨 zhúo mó: 琢磨 zhuo2 mo2: to carve and polish (jade); to polish and refine a literary work
- hairy; downy
- a slug; sb with a runny nose
- 嵌 qiàn: 嵌 qian4: to inlay; to embed; Taiwan pr. [qian1]嵌 kǎn: 嵌 kan3: see 赤嵌樓|赤嵌楼[Chi4 kan3 lou2]
- to bet; to make a bet; a wager
- pup; puppy
- to fabricate (a story)
- to send; to give as a present
- (name) Carter; Jimmy Carter (1924–2024), US president 1977–1981
- plan; idea; decision; CL:個|个[ge4]; Beijing pr. [zhu2 yi5]
- place; destination
- (meteorology) cold air mass
- branch; stem; stalk; CL:根[gen1]; to block; to hinder; (neologism that evolved from 哏[gen2], initially in Taiwan, during the first decade of the 21st century) memorable creative idea (joke, catchphrase, meme, neologism, witty remark etc); prominent feature of a creative work (punchline of a joke, trope in a drama, special ingredient in a dish, riff in a pop song etc)
- (literary) dog; Kangxi radical 94
- Gypsy
- dog; CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
- to roll; to wander around; to appear repeatedly
- to play with; to toy with; to dally with; to engage in; to resort to
- to drown
- to pass water; to piss; to urinate; to wee wee
- see 閉口不言|闭口不言[bi4 kou3 bu4 yan2]
- to throw into; to put into; to throw oneself into; to participate in; to invest in; absorbed; engrossed
- to adopt (a child, pet etc)
- to flash through (one's mind); to dodge (away from pursuers)
- extremely grateful; very thankful
- elusive; hard to pin down; enigmatic
- to express; to convey
- ancient; old; age-old
- likeness of a god or Buddha; (old) portrait of the deceased
- to tremble; to shiver
- frank; candid; straightforward
- sincere; honest
- 农家 nóng jiā: 农家 nong2 jia1: peasant family农家 Nóng jiā: 农家 Nong2 jia1: School of Agriculture, school of thought of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
- to praise; to applaud; to compliment
- to perform (a play etc); to stage (a show); (bound form) to develop; to play out; to carry out (a task)
- long-term; for a protracted period
- by chance; by coincidence; to happen to