Vocabulary: 第五出 招贤
from 邯郸记
- 唐开元x1 | Chapter Rank #475
- 年间x1 | Chapter Rank #476in the years of; during those years; period (of dynasty or decade)
- 大将x1 | Chapter Rank #477a general or admiral
- 梁宣帝x1 | Chapter Rank #478
- 裔x1 | Chapter Rank #479(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 華裔|华裔[Hua2 yi4] "of Chinese descent"); (literary) distant lands; (literary) fringe; periphery
- 孙x2 | Chapter Rank #218grandson; descendantsurname Sun
- 曾x4 | Chapter Rank #58once; already; ever (in the past); former; previously; (past tense marker used before verb or clause)great- (grandfather, grandchild etc)surname Zeng
- 兵部x1 | Chapter Rank #480Ministry of War (in imperial China)
- 尚书x4 | Chapter Rank #59same as 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1] Book of Historyhigh official; government minister
- 领x1 | Chapter Rank #481neck; collar; to lead; to receive; classifier for clothes, mats, screens etc
- 朔方x1 | Chapter Rank #482
- 节度使x1 | Chapter Rank #483Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song
- 后x8 | Chapter Rank #19empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; rulersurname Houback; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post-
- 战功x1 | Chapter Rank #484outstanding military service
- 升x1 | Chapter Rank #485to ascend; to rise; to promote; to elevate; liter; unit of dry measure for grain (= one liter or one-tenth dou 斗[dou3])
- 中书令x2 | Chapter Rank #219
- 右x1 | Chapter Rank #486(bound form) right; right-hand side; (bound form) (politics) right of center; (bound form) (old) west; (literary) the right side as the side of precedence
- 丞x1 | Chapter Rank #487deputy
- 罢x1 | Chapter Rank #488(final particle, same as 吧)to stop; to cease; to dismiss; to suspend; to quit; to finish
- 复x1 | Chapter Rank #489to go and return; to return; to resume; to return to a normal or original state; to repeat; again; to recover; to restore; to turn over; to reply; to answer; to reply to a letter; to retaliate; to carry outto repeat; to double; to overlap; complex (not simple); compound; composite; double; diplo-; duplicate; overlapping; to duplicateto reply to a letter
- 拜x1 | Chapter Rank #490to bow to; to pay one's respects; (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion); to make a courtesy call; (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony; to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc); (used before some verbs to indicate politeness)
- 太子x2 | Chapter Rank #220crown prince
- 太师x1 | Chapter Rank #491imperial tutor
- 乞x1 | Chapter Rank #492to beg
- 归x1 | Chapter Rank #493surname Guito return; to go back to; to give back to; (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by; to belong to; to gather together; (used between two identical verbs) despite; to marry (of a woman) (old); division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor
- 卒x1 | Chapter Rank #494soldier; servant; to finish; to die; finally; at last; pawn in Chinese chess
- 新唐书x2 | Chapter Rank #221History of the Later Tang Dynasty, seventeenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ou1 yang2 Xiu1] and Song Qi 宋祁[Song4 Qi2] in 1060 during Northern Song 北宋[Bei3 Song4], 225 scrolls
- 传x3 | Chapter Rank #125to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity)biography; historical narrative; commentaries; relay station
- 载x3 | Chapter Rank #126to carry; to convey; to load; to hold; to fill up; and; also; as well as; simultaneouslyto record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. [zai4]; year
- 同x1 | Chapter Rank #495used in 胡同[hu2 tong4]like; same; similar; together; alike; withused in 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
- 数年x1 | Chapter Rank #496several years; many years
- 关系x2 | Chapter Rank #222relation; relationship; to concern; to affect; to have to do with; guanxi; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 不是x2 | Chapter Rank #223no; is not; notfault; blame
- 很x1 | Chapter Rank #497very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- 好x1 | Chapter Rank #498to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone togood; 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
- 指x6 | Chapter Rank #32finger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to; to depend on; to count on; (of hair) to stand on end
- 原有x1 | Chapter Rank #499original; former
- 地位x1 | Chapter Rank #500position; status; place; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 被x4 | Chapter Rank #60quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu : 3 you2] to "go on a trip")
- 史记x1 | Chapter Rank #501Records of the Grand Historian, by 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1], first of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3]
- 相国x2 | Chapter Rank #224prime minister (in ancient China)
- 世家x1 | Chapter Rank #502family influential for generations; aristocratic family
- 召x1 | Chapter Rank #503surname Shao; name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Provinceto call together; to summon; to convene; temple or monastery (used in place names in Inner Mongolia)
- 平x1 | Chapter Rank #504flat; level; equal; to tie (make the same score); to draw (score); calm; peaceful; abbr. for 平聲|平声[ping2 sheng1]surname Ping
- 者x2 | Chapter Rank #225(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this
- 故x3 | Chapter Rank #127happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead
- 秦x2 | Chapter Rank #226surname Qin; Qin dynasty (221–207 BC) of the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]; short name for 陝西|陕西[Shan3 xi1]
- 东陵x2 | Chapter Rank #227
- 侯x1 | Chapter Rank #505marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; nobleman; high officialused in 閩侯|闽侯[Min3 hou4] (the name of a place in Fujian)surname Hou
- 破x1 | Chapter Rank #506broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of