Vocabulary: 世间人家多有见赤白光为变怪者
- (literary) boy
- naked
- song (CL:首[shou3],支[zhi1]); (bound form) to sing
- surname Wu; area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai; name of states in southern China at different historical periods
- to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时[ru4 shi2]); abbr. for 入聲|入声[ru4 sheng1]; (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese 入 "iri")
- Ying, ancient capital of Chu 楚 in Hubei, Jianling county 江陵縣|江陵县
- to annotate; to add a comment; explanatory note; annotation
- letter; symbol; character; word; CL:個|个[ge4]; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
- Eastern or later Han dynasty, 25-220
- 睢 sūi: 睢 sui1: to stare睢 Sūi: 睢 Sui1: surname Sui
- positive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism); Yang, opposite: 陰|阴[yin1]
- see 河南省[He2 nan2 Sheng3]; see 河南蒙古族自治縣|河南蒙古族自治县[He2 nan2 Meng2 gu3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
- see 商丘市[Shang1 qiu1 Shi4]
- two-character surname Sikong
- light; ray (CL:道[dao4]); bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
- good fortune; official salary
- 大夫 dà fū: 大夫 da4 fu1: senior official (in imperial China)大夫 dài fu: 大夫 dai4 fu5: doctor; physician
- highest; greatest; too (much); very; extremely
- to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
- office; duty
- nature; disposition; temperament; character; CL:個|个[ge4]
- firm; unyielding
- unafraid; to defy
- influential officials; bigwigs
- honest; uncorrupted
- to praise
- to explore; to search out; to scout; to visit; to stretch forward
- mysterious
- 索 Sǔo: 索 Suo3: surname Suo; abbr. for 索馬里|索马里[Suo3 ma3 li3], Somalia索 sǔo: 索 suo3: to search; to demand; to ask; to exact; large rope; isolated
- 隐 yìn: 隐 yin4: to lean upon隐 yǐn: 隐 yin3: (bound form) secret; hidden; concealed; crypto-
- to seek; to pursue; to investigate
- profound; abstruse; recondite; profoundly
- 的 dī: 的 di1: a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士[di1 shi4])的 dí: 的 di2: really and truly的 dì: 的 di4: (bound form) bull's-eye; target的 de: 的 de5: of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"); also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs
- reason; argument; sense; principle; basis; justification; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 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
- secret; hidden
- affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people
- great; liberal
- Lu, vassal state at the time of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝|周朝[Zhou1 chao2], located in the southwest of present-day Shandong 山東|山东[Shan1 dong1], birthplace of Confucius
- 蕃 bō: 蕃 bo1: see 吐蕃[Tu3 bo1]蕃 fān: 蕃 fan1: foreign (non-Chinese)蕃 fán: 蕃 fan2: luxuriant; flourishing; to reproduce; to proliferate
- to rule; to govern; to manage; to control; to harness (a river); to treat (a disease); to wipe out (a pest); to punish; to research
- see 山東省|山东省[Shan1 dong1 Sheng3]
- see 滕州市[Teng2 zhou1 Shi4]
- 好 hǎo: 好 hao3: good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello好 hào: 好 hao4: to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
- knight-errant; brave and chivalrous; hero; heroic