Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- 宓 mì: 宓 mi4: still; silent宓 Mì: 宓 Mi4: surname Mi
- Zhang Heng (78-139) great Han dynasty astronomer and mathematician
- beautiful woman; fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals; (polite) sb else's daughter; Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM
- Wang Zhaojun (52-19 BC), famous beauty at the court of Han emperor Yuan 漢元帝|汉元帝[Han4 Yuan2 di4], one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女[si4 da4 mei3 nu:3]
- History of Eastern Han (later Han), third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Fan Ye 范曄|范晔[Fan4 Ye4] in 445 during Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4], 120 scrolls
- respectful; horrified; to raise (one's shoulders); to stand on tiptoe; to crane
- to intend to; intention; desire
- to break a promise
- to raise; to hold up; to lift up
- capital of a country (literary)
- grain transported by water (in ancient times)
- to transport; transportation
- round-grained nonglutinous rice (Japonica rice); Taiwan pr. [geng1]
- glutinous rice (Oryza sativa var. glutinosa)
- 餘 yú: 餘 yu2: extra; surplus; remaining; remainder after division; (following numerical value) or more; in excess of (some number); residue (math.); after; I; me餘 Yú: 餘 Yu2: surname Yu
- civil transport; movement aimed at the masses; democracy movement (abbr.)
- as before; as usual; (to be) like old friends
- Arab; Arabian; Arabian people
- Persia
- dance (performance art); dancing
- to pull; to draw (a cart); to tow
- another name for Book of Changes (I Ching) 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]
- to comply with; to conform to; to adapt to; to go along with; in tune with
- heaven and earth; world; scope; field of activity
- temple; ancestral shrine
- (bound form) trace; mark; vestige; clue; Taiwan pr. [ji1]
- Kong Yingda (574-648), Confucian scholar
- fat; fertile; loose-fitting or large; to fertilize; to become rich by illegal means; fertilizer; manure
- 鸿蒙 Hóng méng: 鸿蒙 Hong2 meng2: HarmonyOS (Huawei operating system)鸿蒙 hóng méng: 鸿蒙 hong2 meng2: (literary) primordial chaos (the undifferentiated state of the universe before creation)
- universe; cosmos; space
- primal chaos (original state of the universe in Chinese mythology); (of a situation) confused; chaotic; (of a person) muddle-headed; simple-minded
- condition; state; state of affairs
- to open up; to set up; to establish