Vocabulary: 封神演义
- trials and tribulations
- former sovereigns
- classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old)
- 仰 Yǎng: 仰 Yang3: surname Yang仰 yǎng: 仰 yang3: to face upward; to look up; to admire; to rely on
- 党 dǎng: 党 dang3: party; association; club; society; CL:個|个[ge4]党 Dǎng: 党 Dang3: surname Dang
- illegal; to break the law
- inside and outside; domestic and foreign; approximately; about
- canon; law; standard work of scholarship; literary quotation or allusion; ceremony; to be in charge of; to mortgage or pawn
- paternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old); nun; for the time being (literary)
- punitive expedition to the north
- to meet face to face; to meet in person
- yellow soil (acidic, iron-rich soil of tropical and subtropical regions); (literary) yellow earth; loess; (literary) the underworld
- to go down; to descend; to go on; to continue; (of a servant) to withdraw
- pumpkin (Gymnopetalum chinense); a mace with a brass head resembling a pumpkin
- to set about (a task); to raise a hand to hit sb; to touch; to handle (typically used in cautioning sb *not* to touch sth)
- to erect; vertical; vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)
- evil words; malicious talk
- to insult; to ridicule; to disgrace
- disgraceful (of behavior that is unfilial, rebellious or otherwise in grave breach of the norms of society)
- unusual; abnormal
- used in 囹圄[ling2 yu3]
- prison; to imprison
- crafty; cunning; sly
- to guard against evil; to exorcise
- circle; round; circular; spherical; (of the moon) full; unit of Chinese currency (yuan); tactful; to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie)
- copper (chemistry); see also 紅銅|红铜[hong2 tong2]; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- to bring about; to create; to cause
- (a) law
- various; many different kinds of
- 剥 bō: 剥 bo1: to peel; to skin; to flay; to shuck剥 bāo: 剥 bao1: to peel; to skin; to shell; to shuck
- (of an illness, debt etc) to plague one; to bog one down; to preoccupy one
- to wrap around; bundle; parcel; package; to press into service; to pressgang; to make off with (sth)
- the four limbs of the body
- muscles and bones; physique; strength; courage
- xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害[Shen1 Bu4 hai4]; the designation for a punishment
- cruelty; torture