Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- (to play) one's part; one's role; one's duty; (to stay within) one's bounds; dutiful; keeping to one's role
- adult male
- scull (single oar worked from side to side over the stern of a boat)
- Honshū, the main island of Japan
- (respectful for) one's grandfather; sb's father; older people; the head of the house (used by servants); a district magistrate
- 稍 shào: 稍 shao4: used in 稍息[shao4 xi1]稍 shāo: 稍 shao1: somewhat; a little
- 逼 bī: 逼 bi1: to compel; to pressure逼 bī: 逼 bi1: to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on
- to delay; to procrastinate
- rope; CL:根[gen1]
- 颈 gěng: 颈 geng3: used in 脖頸|脖颈[bo2 geng3]颈 jǐng: 颈 jing3: neck
- prisoner
- nickname for official
- lit. mole cricket and ants; fig. tiny individuals with no power
- future (career etc) prospects
- ant
- adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
- younger sister
- suffering
- Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
- good looks (of a woman)
- a period of time in the recent past; (indicating a period of time up to the present) all along; the whole time
- to refer to; see also; compare (cf.); to pay respect to
- surname Jian
- skein; tuft; lock
- 摇 Yáo: 摇 Yao2: surname Yao摇 yáo: 摇 yao2: to shake; to rock; to row; to crank
- dragon boat; imperial boat
- this matter
- fairyland; honorific: your homeland
- song
- (Japanese mahjong) to complete one's hand within a single turn after declaring riichi (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 一発 "ippatsu")
- (bound form) water caltrop (Trapa species)
- female singer (archaic)
- as it turns out; by lucky coincidence; (of number, time, size etc) just right
- 劳 Láo: 劳 Lao2: surname Lao劳 láo: 劳 lao2: (bound form) to toil; labor; (bound form) laborer; (bound form) meritorious deed; (bound form) fatigue; to put sb to the trouble (of doing sth); (bound form) to express appreciation for sb's efforts (Taiwan pr. [lao4])
- things; affairs; decorum
- Wan Wan (1981-), Taiwanese blogger and cartoonist