Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- charm; grace; elegant bearing (usually feminine)
- repulsive; vile; hateful; abominable
- trials and tribulations
- dignity; prestige; face; honorable; creditable; (of sb's appearance) presentable; respectable
- winter
- subtle fragrance
- to hoist
- pearls; jewels; precious stones
- a line of verse; a sentence
- to flare up; to break out
- to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)
- won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?
- reward; to reward
- Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
- to number; to assign numbers; serial number
- eight-section brocade, a traditional eight-part sequence of qigong exercises
- see 宣威市[Xuan1 wei1 Shi4]
- each; every
- 匹 pǐ: 匹 pi3: (bound form) matching; comparable to; (bound form) alone; single; one of a pair; classifier for horses, mules etc (Taiwan pr. [pi1]); classifier for cloth: bolt; horsepower匹 pǐ: 匹 pi3: classifier for cloth: bolt
- to whisper in sb's ear; a whisper
- will; shall; to be going to
- velvet; woolen
- see 樣子|样子[yang4 zi5]
- to count and check; to tally; points (collected in some bonus scheme etc)
- time; era; period of time
- rapid; fast
- (literary) to wind around
- square cun (Chinese unit of area: 1 cun × 1 cun, or 3⅓ cm × 3⅓ cm); heart; mind
- tear stains
- (suffix) very; extremely
- 羯 Jié: 羯 Jie2: Jie people, a tribe of northern China around the 4th century羯 jié: 羯 jie2: ram, esp. gelded; to castrate; deer's skin
- fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though
- to inlay; to embed; ridge; border
- good or not?; luckily; fortuitously
- to attract; to incur
- treasured object; treasure; darling; baby; cowry; good-for-nothing or queer character