Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
- adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors
- to check; to tally; to inventory
- Yulan magnolia
- personally; in person; oneself
- to examine; to test; to check
- to go from house to house
- president or director (of association etc)
- announcement
- to find a pretext for refusing
- convention; usual practice
- extortion and blackmail (idiom)
- disorganized; rambling; incoherent
- arrangement; order; tidiness
- trifling; trivial; tedious; inconsequential
- in a mess; in a jumble; chaotic
- 撮 zǔo: 撮 zuo3: classifier for hair or grass: tuft; Taiwan pr. [cuo4]撮 cūo: 撮 cuo1: to pick up (a powder etc) with the fingertips; to scoop up; to collect together; to extract; to gather up; classifier: pinch; Taiwan pr. [cuo4]
- ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; resolute; to harden (one's heart)
- young and tender; (of food) tender; lightly cooked; (of color) light; (of a person) inexperienced; unskilled
- zero; nought; zero sign; fractional; fragmentary; odd (of numbers); (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one); fraction; (in mathematics) remainder (after division); extra; to wither and fall; to wither
- to injure; injury; wound
- pun; play on words; a phrase with a double meaning
- grease; profit; ill-gotten gains
- bamboo and wood
- raft (of logs)
- 义 yì: 义 yi4: justice; righteousness; meaning; foster (father etc); adopted; artificial (tooth, limb etc); relationship; friendship义 Yì: 义 Yi4: surname Yi; (Tw) Italy (abbr. for 義大利|义大利[Yi4 da4 li4])
- to guard; to defend
- figure (esp. a woman's)
- room; universe
- 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
- city; village
- ruins; (literary) village; country fair
- historical communal administrative and self-defence system created during the Song Dynasty and revived during the Republican Era, in which households are grouped in jia 甲[jia3] and jia are grouped in bao 保[bao3]
- quickly; at once
- to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation); to start a construction job
- granary; barn; fig. bread basket (of fertile agricultural land)
- to lead to
- pass; gateway; (fig.) juncture
- Henan Province, capital Zhengzhou 鄭州市|郑州市[Zheng4 zhou1 Shi4] (short name 豫[Yu4])