Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- 追 dūi: 追 dui1: to sculpt; to carve; musical instrument (old)追 zhūi: 追 zhui1: to chase; to pursue; to look into; to investigate; to reminisce; to recall; to court (one's beloved); to binge-watch (a TV drama); retroactively; posthumously
- great streets and small alleys (idiom); everywhere in the city
- to speed along
- vehicle owner
- to apologize
- car or other vehicle (bicycle, truck etc)
- corpse; dead body
- (idiom) unable to speak through tears; sobbing uncontrollably
- 猫 māo: 猫 mao1: cat (CL:隻|只[zhi1]); (dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword) (coll.) modem猫 máo: 猫 mao2: used in 貓腰|猫腰[mao2 yao1]
- river; stream
- custom; tradition; local tradition; convention
- carton; cardboard box
- to see someone off; to throw someone a send-off party
- tenderness; warmth; warmhearted; softhearted
- benevolent; charitable; kind; kindly; kindness; merciful
- to keep on saying (idiom); to repeat over and over again
- to spend money
- goldfish
- to set free a captive animal (in some cases, as an act of Buddhist mercy)
- rare; seldom seen; (formal) it's a rare pleasure to see you
- unprincipled
- firecrackers; string of small firecrackers; CL:枚[mei2]
- arrogant; haughty; proud
- to get lost; to lose one's bearings
- to show no quarter; ruthless; relentless
- to denounce; to condemn; to criticize; condemnation; criticism
- 三字经 Sān zì Jīng: 三字经 San1 zi4 Jing1: Three Character Classic, 13th century reading primer consisting of Confucian tenets in lines of 3 characters三字经 sān zì jīng: 三字经 san1 zi4 jing1: (slang) swearword; four-letter word
- Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
- Guwen Guanzhi, an anthology of essays written in Literary Chinese, compiled and edited by Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou of Qing dynasty
- load; burden; charge
- stiff; inflexible; also pr. [ai2 ban3]
- all categories
- to seep in; to influence; to nurture; influence; training
- breath; smell; odor; flavor
- lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life; to have great hopes for one's offspring; to give one's child the best education as a career investment
- descendant
- to stress; to emphasize; particular about sth; to strive for
- Moments (social networking function of smartphone app WeChat 微信[Wei1 xin4])
- (bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green; (literary) cold
- remarkable; outstanding
- calligraphy; handwriting; penmanship