Vocabulary: 引子
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 宅院x1 | Chapter Rank #356house; house with a courtyard
- 商贩x1 | Chapter Rank #357trader; peddler
- 开辟x1 | Chapter Rank #358to open up; to set up; to establish
- 作x5 | Chapter Rank #64(bound form) worker; (bound form) workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)to do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign; to regard as; to consider to be; to be; to act the part of; to feel (itchy, nauseous etc); writings; works
- 一x19 | Chapter Rank #13one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- 个x17 | Chapter Rank #15used in 自個兒|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5](classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual
- 又x6 | Chapter Rank #57(once) again; also; both... and...; and yet; (used for emphasis) anyway
- 小x3 | Chapter Rank #99small; tiny; few; young
- 饭馆x1 | Chapter Rank #359restaurant; CL:家[jia1]
- 在x36 | Chapter Rank #2to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
- 早春x2 | Chapter Rank #155early spring
- 凛冽x2 | Chapter Rank #156biting cold
- 市井x1 | Chapter Rank #360marketplace; town; the street (urban milieu); the haunts of the common people
- 地x13 | Chapter Rank #21earth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]-ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- 萧条x1 | Chapter Rank #361bleak; desolate; (economics) in a slump; sluggish; depressed
- 黯淡x1 | Chapter Rank #362
- 院墙x1 | Chapter Rank #363
- 间x1 | Chapter Rank #364between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for roomsgap; to separate; to thin out (seedlings); to sow discontent
- 不时x1 | Chapter Rank #365from time to time; now and then; occasionally; frequently
- 有x12 | Chapter Rank #26to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)
- 老x2 | Chapter Rank #157prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person); experienced; of long standing; always; all the time; of the past; very; outdated; (of meat etc) tough
- 树x1 | Chapter Rank #366tree; CL:棵[ke1]; to cultivate; to set up
- 探x1 | Chapter Rank #367to explore; to search out; to scout; to visit; to stretch forward
- 出x4 | Chapter Rank #77to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- 干枯x1 | Chapter Rank #368withered; shriveled; dried-up
- 枝丫x2 | Chapter Rank #158
- 上方x1 | Chapter Rank #369place above (it); upper part (of it)
- 高高低低x1 | Chapter Rank #370high and low; uneven (in height); uneven (of ground)
- 电线x1 | Chapter Rank #371wire; power cord; CL:根[gen1]
- 将x8 | Chapter Rank #40to desire; to invite; to requestwill; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])(bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
- 料峭x1 | Chapter Rank #372spring chill in the air; cold
- 天光x1 | Chapter Rank #373
- 分割x1 | Chapter Rank #374to cut up; to break up
- 成x4 | Chapter Rank #78surname Cheng; short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth
- 均匀x1 | Chapter Rank #375even; well-distributed; homogeneous; well-proportioned (figure, body etc)
- 片段x1 | Chapter Rank #376fragment (of speech etc); extract (from book etc); episode (of story etc)
- 举目x1 | Chapter Rank #377to look; to raise one's eyes
- 都x13 | Chapter Rank #22capital city; metropolisall; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at allsurname Du
- 时间x3 | Chapter Rank #100(concept of) time; (duration of) time; (point in) time
- 痕迹x1 | Chapter Rank #378vestige; mark; trace
- 唯有x1 | Chapter Rank #379only
- 深处x2 | Chapter Rank #159abyss; depths; deepest or most distant part
- 一排x2 | Chapter Rank #160row
- 低矮x1 | Chapter Rank #380short; low
- 蓝色x2 | Chapter Rank #161blue (color)
- 钢化x1 | Chapter Rank #381
- 瓦x1 | Chapter Rank #382roof tile; abbr. for 瓦特[wa3 te4]
- 例外x1 | Chapter Rank #383exception; to be an exception
- 它x7 | Chapter Rank #51itit (pronoun for an animal)
- 突兀x1 | Chapter Rank #384lofty; towering; sudden; abrupt