Vocabulary: 订书匠
- see 可不是[ke3 bu5 shi4]
- 供 gòng: 供 gong4: to lay (sacrificial offerings); (bound form) offerings; to confess (Taiwan pr. [gong1]); confession; statement (Taiwan pr. [gong1])供 gōng: 供 gong1: to provide; to supply; to be for (the use or convenience of)
- 围 wéi: 围 wei2: to encircle; to surround; all around; to wear by wrapping around (scarf, shawl)围 Wéi: 围 Wei2: surname Wei
- to capture (enemy property or personnel); capture (physics: absorption of subatomic particle by an atom or nucleus)
- celery; parsley
- barb; whiskers
- to be laughing and playing; to giggle
- winding corridor; cloister; ambulatory (covered walkway around a cloister)
- spirit; fairy; elf; sprite; genie
- fluid glance
- limb; limbs and trunk; body
- dazzling (idiom)
- water lily
- funeral and interment
- to press (with one's finger or hand)
- spark; meteor trail (mostly used in expressions like 急如星火[ji2 ru2 xing1 huo3])
- to flicker; to flash on and off; to brighten and fade
- strand; thread; detailed; in detail; classifier for wisps (of smoke, mist or vapor), strands, locks (of hair)
- to take in; income; revenue; CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4]
- sequence; order
- to half rise out of one's chair (a polite gesture)
- 壮 zhuàng: 壮 zhuang4: to strengthen; strong; robust壮 Zhuàng: 壮 Zhuang4: Zhuang ethnic group, the largest ethnic minority in China
- to get one’s courage up; to embolden
- (archaic) agate; (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale; number; (computing) code; (clothing) size; yard (unit of length); (coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references); (coll.) to pile up; to stack; classifier for matters, items, situations etc (esp. when indicating whether they are the same or different, as in 不是一碼事|不是一码事[bu4 shi4 yi1 ma3 shi4] "not the same thing"); (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)
- magnanimous (idiom); generous
- conversely; in reverse order; in an opposite direction
- to infringe on; to encroach on; to violate; to assault
- like a smile yet not a smile (idiom)
- to start; to put one's hand to; to set about; the seat to the right of the main guest
- (literary) to look disdainfully out of the corner of one's eye; to look askance at
- impossible to resist (idiom); an irresistible force
- deck chair; recliner; couch; lounge
- circus
- to force someone to do something
- to admire wholeheartedly; to fall in love with