Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change
- separately; severally; parted hair
- operation; action; CL:個|个[ge4]; to move about; mobile
- to raid; to storm; surprise attack
- how; what way; what
- to reckon; to calculate; to plan; to expect; to scheme
- to gather; to assemble; (math.) set
- 和 húo: 和 huo2: to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water; Taiwan pr. [huo4]和 hùo: 和 huo4: to mix (ingredients) together; to blend; classifier for rinses of clothes; classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs和 Hé: 和 He2: surname He和 hé: 和 he2: (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]); (math.) sum; to make peace; (sports) to draw; to tie; (bound form) harmonious; (bound form) Japan; Japanese和 hè: 和 he4: to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence; to join in the singing; to chime in with others和 hú: 和 hu2: to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards
- to 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
- (bound form) enemy; (bound form) to be a match for; to rival; (bound form) to resist; to withstand
- to seize; to capture
- to interrogate; to examine; to question
- to probe; to survey
- to recuperate; to recover (health); to convalesce
- artisan; smith
- carpenter's straight line marker (an inked cord stretched tight then lowered onto timber)
- honest; forthcoming; to confess
- clear; fine (weather)
- offbeat; alternative; avant-garde; unconventional; weird
- to revive; (lit. and fig.) to come back to life; (religion) resurrection
- to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce; to palpitate
- a room for keeping sth hidden; secret room; hidden chamber
- to grab hold of; to capture
- (bound form) at first; initially; (bound form) first; early; (bound form) (in lunar calendar dates, before numerals 1–10) days 1 to 10 of a month, as in 初三[chu1 san1] "the third"
- to make visible; to reveal; prominent; conspicuous; (prefix) phanero-
- 约 yāo: 约 yao1: to weigh in a balance or on a scale约 yuē: 约 yue1: to make an appointment; to invite; approximately; pact; treaty; to economize; to restrict; to reduce (a fraction); concise
- to fight; fight; war; battle
- hilltop
- to close the passes; to seal off the country; seclusion (monastic practice, e.g. of Chan Buddhists)
- 成 chéng: 成 cheng2: to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth成 Chéng: 成 Cheng2: surname Cheng; short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]
- noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke
- 瓮 wèng: 瓮 weng4: earthen jar; urn瓮 Wèng: 瓮 Weng4: surname Weng瓮 wèng: 瓮 weng4: pottery container for water, wine etc
- (astronomy) black hole
- to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce
- front; obverse side; right side; positive; direct; open
- right; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding; to treat (sb a certain way); to face; (bound form) opposite; facing; matching; to match together; to adjust; to fit; to suit; to answer; to reply; to add; to pour in (a fluid); to check; to compare; classifier: couple; pair
- 困 kùn: 困 kun4: to trap; to surround; hard-pressed; stranded; destitute困 kùn: 困 kun4: sleepy; tired
- (idiom) to survive a calamity; to get through a crisis
- to scatter; to distribute; to be distributed (over an area etc); (statistical, geographic) distribution
- to reconstruct; to repair; to revamp; to revise; to retake a failed course
- precipice; overhanging cliff
- scenery; landscape