Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- dark clouds
- (literary) prophecy; omen
- 轮回 lún húi: 轮回 lun2 hui2: (neologism) (slang) to respond to a message after a very long delay (pun on 輪迴|轮回[lun2 hui2], the cycle of rebirth) (opposite of 秒回[miao3 hui2])轮回 lún húi: 轮回 lun2 hui2: (Buddhism) samsara; cycle of rebirth; to recur cyclically; to succeed one another in cycles
- wood; log (CL:塊|块[kuai4],根[gen1]); (fig.) blockhead; dolt
- deep in the mountains
- thread; string; wire; line; CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3],根[gen1]; (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)
- careless; thoughtless
- fire pit
- 喔 o: 喔 o5: (Tw) (sentence-final particle) (used to convey a friendly tone when giving an admonition or correcting sb etc)喔 wō: 喔 wo1: (onom.) cry of a rooster (usu. reduplicated); Taiwan pr. [wo4]喔 ō: 喔 o1: (interjection) oh; I see (used to indicate realization, understanding)
- hatchway; skylight; sun roof
- to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古[Pan2 gu3] creation myth
- the distant past; ancient times; antiquity; early historical times
- to rule (a country); to govern; rule; regime
- to number the years; calendar era; annals; chronicle
- (a person's) age; CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4]
- tube; cylinder; to encase in sth cylindrical (such as hands in sleeves etc)
- made of bamboo
- both; both of them; neither
- frequently; constantly; regularly; often; day-to-day; everyday; daily
- to accompany (musically)
- astronomy
- to suppose; to presume; to assume; supposing that ...; if; hypothesis; conjecture
- to correspond; answering (one another); to agree (among the part); corresponding; relevant; appropriate; (modify) accordingly
- alchemist; necromancer
- 凶 xīong: 凶 xiong1: terrible; fearful凶 xīong: 凶 xiong1: vicious; fierce; ominous; inauspicious; famine
- building; construction; civil engineering
- good looks; beauty; good-looking
- scornful; disdainful; contemptuous; pejorative; disdain; contempt
- to mean; meaning
- mien; complexion
- substance; essence
- used in 骷髏|骷髅[ku1 lou2]
- used in 髑髏|髑髅[du2 lou2] and 骷髏|骷髅[ku1 lou2]
- water and land transport
- unavoidable; the only (road, entrance etc)
- ferry crossing
- checkpoint (for taxation, security etc); (fig.) barrier; hurdle; red tape; CL:道[dao4]; Taiwan pr. [guan1ka3]
- Wang Mang (45 BC-23 AD), usurped power and reigned 9-23 between the former and later Han