Vocabulary: 第十一章 南渡
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 荒凉x1 | Chapter Rank #6412desolate
- 残破x1 | Chapter Rank #6413broken; dilapidated
- 千疮百孔x1 | Chapter Rank #6414see 百孔千瘡|百孔千疮[bai3 kong3 qian1 chuang1]
- 康熙x1 | Chapter Rank #6415Kangxi, reign title (1662–1722) of the Kangxi Emperor 聖祖|圣祖[Sheng4 zu3]; the Kangxi Emperor (Qing dynasty)
- 巡抚x1 | Chapter Rank #6416inspector-general of province in Ming and Qing times
- 康熙皇帝x1 | Chapter Rank #6417
- 奏折x1 | Chapter Rank #6418memorial to the emperor (folded in accordion form)
- 奏请x1 | Chapter Rank #6419
- 招x3 | Chapter Rank #2128to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess
- 流x3 | Chapter Rank #2129to flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread; to move or drift; to degenerate; to banish or send into exile; stream of water or sth resembling one; class, rate or grade
- 返x2 | Chapter Rank #3253to return (to)
- 移民x2 | Chapter Rank #3254to immigrate; to migrate; emigrant; immigrant
- 复垦x1 | Chapter Rank #6420
- 湖广x1 | Chapter Rank #6421Hubei and Hunan provinces (a Ming dynasty province)
- 填x1 | Chapter Rank #6422to fill or stuff; (of a form etc) to fill in
- 四方x2 | Chapter Rank #3255four-way; four-sided; in all directions; everywhere
- 杂处x1 | Chapter Rank #6423(of disparate elements) to mix in with one another; (of diverse groups of people) to live in the same area; to coexist
- 繁衍生息x1 | Chapter Rank #6424
- 号称x1 | Chapter Rank #6425to be known as; to be nicknamed; to be purportedly; to claim (often exaggeratedly or falsely)
- 九宫x2 | Chapter Rank #3256
- 十八x2 | Chapter Rank #3257eighteen; 18
- 庙x6 | Chapter Rank #1006temple; ancestral shrine; CL:座[zuo4]; temple fair; great imperial hall; imperial
- 踱步x1 | Chapter Rank #6426to pace; to stroll
- 一字排开x1 | Chapter Rank #6427
- 东岳庙x3 | Chapter Rank #2130
- 王爷庙x1 | Chapter Rank #6428
- 爷x1 | Chapter Rank #6429grandpa; old gentleman
- 宫x4 | Chapter Rank #1569surname Gongpalace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale
- 慧x2 | Chapter Rank #3258intelligent
- 禹王宫x2 | Chapter Rank #3259
- 巧x2 | Chapter Rank #3260opportunely; coincidentally; as it happens; skillful; timely
- 圣x1 | Chapter Rank #6430(literary) to dig with persistent effort (e.g. to gather wild vegetables)(bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc); (bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc); (bound form) holy; sacred
- 祖x10 | Chapter Rank #534ancestor; forefather; grandparentssurname Zu
- 雕刻x1 | Chapter Rank #6431to carve; to engrave; carving
- 精美x3 | Chapter Rank #2131exquisite; elegant; fine
- 巧妙x1 | Chapter Rank #6432ingenious; clever; ingenuity; artifice
- 足x1 | Chapter Rank #6433excessive(bound form) foot; leg; sufficient; ample; as much as; fully
- 傲x1 | Chapter Rank #6434proud; arrogant; to despise; unyielding; to defy
- 香火x1 | Chapter Rank #6435incense burning in front of a temple; burning joss sticks
- 旧时x1 | Chapter Rank #6436in former times; the olden days
- 每逢x1 | Chapter Rank #6437every time; on each occasion; whenever
- 农历x1 | Chapter Rank #6438the traditional Chinese calendar; the lunar calendar
- 卯x1 | Chapter Rank #6439mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon); 4th earthly branch: 5–7 a.m., 2nd solar month (6th March–4th April), Year of the Rabbit; ancient Chinese compass point: 90° (east)
- 午x1 | Chapter Rank #64407th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse; ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south)
- 酉x1 | Chapter Rank #644110th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Rooster; ancient Chinese compass point: 270° (west)
- 传说x1 | Chapter Rank #6442legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
- 东岳x1 | Chapter Rank #6443Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4]
- 大帝x1 | Chapter Rank #6444heavenly emperor; "the Great" (title)
- 生日x1 | Chapter Rank #6445birthday; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 镇上x9 | Chapter Rank #612