Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- spacious; roomy; uncrowded; (of clothes) loose and comfortable; relaxed; free of worry; well-off; affluent
- to wear a hat; (fig.) to stigmatize; to be branded as
- to let off; to give out
- to penetrate; to break into (a market, social group etc); to infiltrate (enemy ranks etc); to banish to; to relegate to; to insert; to inject; to crack (an egg) into (a bowl etc)
- to sneak into
- (idiom) to thank profusely; to express deep gratitude
- to get away; to escape (from obligations); to free oneself; to disengage
- stratagem
- language; CL:門|门[men2],種|种[zhong3]
- to hasten on with one's journey; to hurry on
- see 山東省|山东省[Shan1 dong1 Sheng3]
- swift and fierce; fierce; forceful
- to pardon; please excuse (me); to take responsibility
- flower; fresh flowers; CL:朵[duo3]
- red spider lily (Lycoris radiata); cluster amaryllis
- petal; CL:片[pian4]
- to fly over; to fly past
- graceful; lithe; light and graceful; lighthearted; relaxed
- river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]); (bound form) the Yellow River; (bound form) the Milky Way; (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉[he2 fen3]
- surname Xing; place name
- bridge; CL:座[zuo4]
- pavilion
- (bound form) grandmother; (bound form) matron; (bound form) mother-in-law; (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
- order; orderliness (in society, in the classroom, on the roads etc)
- underlayer; lower class; lower strata; substrate
- 称 chèn: 称 chen4: to fit; to match; to suit; (coll.) to have; to possess; Taiwan pr. [cheng4]称 chēng: 称 cheng1: to weigh; to state; to name; name; appellation; to praise
- 布袋 Bù dài: 布袋 Bu4 dai4: Budai (the Laughing Buddha); Budai or Putai Town in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县[Jia1 yi4 Xian4], west Taiwan布袋 bù dài: 布袋 bu4 dai4: pouch; sack; bag
- steelyard balance; Roman balance; CL:臺|台[tai2]
- wait and see (who is right)
- pavilion
- (of smoke from a chimney) to curl upward; (of a sound) to linger on
- 云霄 yún xiāo: 云霄 yun2 xiao1: (the) skies云霄 Yún xiāo: 云霄 Yun2 xiao1: see 雲霄縣|云霄县[Yun2 xiao1 Xian4]
- (idiom) to talk to oneself; to think aloud; to soliloquize
- 司 sī: 司 si1: to take charge of; to manage; department (under a ministry)司 Sī: 司 Si1: surname Si
- to conduct oneself; to behave with integrity
- to duplicate; to make a copy of; to copy; to reproduce; to clone
- two things that are fundamentally different from each other; two very different things
- to rotate; to revolve; to spin; to whirl
- whirlpool; eddy; vortex; (fig.) maelstrom
- to erode; to corrode
- 扎 zhá: 扎 zha2: used in 掙扎|挣扎[zheng1 zha2]扎 zhā: 扎 zha1: to prick; to run or stick (a needle etc) into; mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from "jar")扎 zhā: 扎 zha1: (of troops) to be stationed (at); Taiwan pr. [zha2]扎 zā: 扎 za1: to tie; to bind; classifier for flowers, banknotes etc: bundle; Taiwan pr. [zha2]