Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high official; (literary) but; however; (literary) only; just
- who; also pr. [shui2]
- zero; nought; zero sign; fractional; fragmentary; odd (of numbers); (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one); fraction; (in mathematics) remainder (after division); extra; to wither and fall; to wither
- servant girl; maid
- master and servant
- to melt; to thaw; to dissolve; to blend into; to combine; to fuse
- human body
- 水 shǔi: 水 shui3: water; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4 shui3] and 水性[shui3 xing4]); (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy; (bound form) additional cost; extra income; classifier for washings of a garment水 Shǔi: 水 Shui3: surname Shui; Shui ethnic group
- food
- crisis
- half (of sth); halfway through
- nemesis; bane; fated to be ill-matched
- to return; to come back
- a man; a male; men; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- internal organs; viscera
- (attributive) paper; hard-copy; printed; paper quality
- calabash or bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria); hoist; generic term for block and tackle (or parts thereof); muddled; (poker) full house
- palace maid; CL:個|个[ge4],名[ming2],位[wei4]
- 故宫 Gù gōng: 故宫 Gu4 gong1: the Forbidden City; abbr. for 故宮博物院|故宫博物院[Gu4 gong1 Bo2 wu4 yuan4]故宫 gù gōng: 故宫 gu4 gong1: former imperial palace
- to lose
- magic power
- popular feeling; the will of the people
- lantern
- 白 Bái: 白 Bai2: surname Bai; Bai ethnic group白 bái: 白 bai2: white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in opera
- damask; thin silk
- the body; one's health
- mysterious; mystery