Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- Qinling Mountain Range in Shaanxi forming a natural barrier between the Guanzhong Plain 關中平原|关中平原[Guan1 zhong1 Ping2 yuan2] and the Han River 漢水|汉水[Han4 shui3] valley
- 谏 jiàn: 谏 jian4: to remonstrate; to admonish谏 Jiàn: 谏 Jian4: surname Jian
- Buddha's bones (as a sacred relic)
- busybody; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to add parallels and interpretations (to a story etc); to develop and embellish; to interpret (often in a strained manner)
- see 鄭州市|郑州市[Zheng4 zhou1 Shi4]
- high level; high grade; advanced; high-ranking
- accounts; financial records; accounting entry
- (Buddhist) monks and nuns
- Kaifeng as the capital of Northern Song dynasty
- 执事 zhí shì: 执事 zhi2 shi4: to perform one's job; attendant; job; duties; (respectful appellation for the addressee) you; your Excellency; (Church) deacon执事 zhí shi: 执事 zhi2 shi5: paraphernalia of a guard of honor
- public opinion; popular will; public will
- crotch; 15th of the 28th constellations of Chinese astronomy
- stomach; CL:個|个[ge4]
- the Pleiades
- number 20 of the 28 constellations 二十八宿, approx. Orion 獵戶座|猎户座
- Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky); (in Daoism) God of the north sky
- to break away from; to cast off (old ideas etc); to get rid of; to break away (from); to break out (of); to free oneself from; to extricate oneself
- to be worried; to be distressed; worries
- (idiom) to illegally take possession of; to appropriate
- to claim credit for other people's achievements (idiom)
- soul; spirit
- body
- to sit in the lotus position
- to practice Chan Buddhist meditation; to practice Zen meditation; to sit in meditation
- sitting posture
- to erect; vertical; vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)
- the character 8 or 八; birthdate characters used in fortune-telling
- sloping eyebrows, formed like character for "eight"
- even; well-distributed; uniform; to distribute evenly; to share