Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- 休 Xīu: 休 Xiu1: surname Xiu休 xīu: 休 xiu1: to rest; to stop doing sth for a period of time; to cease; (imperative) don't
- to overlap; to superimpose; to telescope; to run together; to duplicate; one over another; superposition; an overlap; redundancy; reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步[san4 san4 bu4] to have a stroll)
- to place in; to put in (a position)
- towel; general purpose cloth; women's headcovering (old); Kangxi radical 50
- box; trunk; chest
- (math.) multiplied with
- spurt out of the mouth
- sleep; to sleep; (computing) to enter sleep mode
- to reverse; to turn around (an undesirable situation); (mechanics) torsion
- to lead to
- lit. to ascend to heaven; to die
- 路 Lù: 路 Lu4: surname Lu路 lù: 路 lu4: road (CL:條|条[tiao2]); journey; route; line (bus etc); sort; kind
- sun; sunlight; sunshine; temple (on the side of the human head) (abbr. for 太陽穴|太阳穴[tai4 yang2 xue2])
- to go down a hill; (of the sun or moon) to set
- popular tradition; folk legend
- 魏 Wèi: 魏 Wei4: surname Wei; name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States; Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1], one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty; the Wei dynasty 221–265; Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history魏 wèi: 魏 wei4: tower over a palace gateway (old)
- 泰 tài: 泰 tai4: safe; peaceful; most; grand泰 Tài: 泰 Tai4: Mt Tai 泰山[Tai4 Shan1] in Shandong; abbr. for Thailand
- to take down (in writing); notes; a type of literature consisting mainly of short sketches; CL:本[ben3]
- the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)
- see 永州市[Yong3 zhou1 Shi4]
- good (virtuous); benevolent; well-disposed; good at sth; to improve or perfect
- see 零陵區|零陵区[Ling2 ling2 Qu1]
- since childhood; from a young age
- to pick tea leaves
- Daoist immortal; celestial being
- to pass on; to hand down; tradition has it that ...; according to legend
- capital of a country
- lieutenant (navy); first lieutenant (army); subaltern
- see 山西省[Shan1 xi1 Sheng3]
- 咸 Xián: 咸 Xian2: surname Xian咸 xián: 咸 xian2: all; everyone; each; widespread; harmonious咸 xián: 咸 xian2: salted; salty; stingy; miserly
- to live in seclusion
- Zhongnan Mountains, near Xi'an; also known as the Taiyi Mountains
- to practice Daoism
- (idiom) to vanish without a trace; to go missing
- to call oneself; to claim to be; to profess; to claim a title
- 回 Húi: 回 Hui2: Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims)回 húi: 回 hui2: to go back; to return; to turn back; to turn around; to reply; to answer; classifier for literary divisions (acts of a play, sections or chapters of a classic book); classifier for occurrences or times回 húi: 回 hui2: to curve; to return; to revolve
- to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning
- Daoist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), based on the teachings of Laozi or Lao-tze 老子[Lao3 zi3] (c. 500 BC-) and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3] (369-286 BC)
- see 正陽縣|正阳县[Zheng4 yang2 Xian4]
- founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)
- quatrain (poetic form)
- clear; bright
- to chant; to recite; verse; song (often used in titles of classical poems); (literary) to lament; to groan; (bound form) (in poetry) the cry of certain animals and insects; (music) rapid vibrato (technique for playing the guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2]) (cf. 猱[nao2], wide vibrato)