Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- 闷 mèn: 闷 men4: bored; depressed; melancholy; sealed; airtight; tightly closed闷 mēn: 闷 men1: stuffy; shut indoors; to smother; to cover tightly
- (literary) fishermen and woodcutters (used to refer to rustic people or a simple, pastoral lifestyle)
- gradually
- deprivation; distressed; miserable
- to harm; to jeopardize; to endanger; harmful effect; damage
- to make a general reference; to be used in a general sense
- hardships; arduous; difficult
- to torture; to torment
- to hit; to strike; to tap; to rap; to knock; to rip sb off; to overcharge
- the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], e.g. ☶
- to report; to inform; to announce; to respond; to reply; to sign up for; to register for (abbr. for 報名|报名[bao4 ming2]); to reward; to recompense; to take revenge; to retaliate; newspaper; periodical; journal; bulletin; telegram
- (of a man) able and virtuous
- to admire
- life
- mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick
- to guard; to protect
- deficiency; lack; scarce; vacant post; to run short of
- trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble
- dan, female roles in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)
- middle and old age
- woman
- secondary
- starring female role in a Chinese opera
- 叙 xù: 叙 xu4: to narrate; to chat叙 Xù: 叙 Xu4: abbr. for Syria 敘利亞|叙利亚[Xu4 li4 ya4]
- outside; excluding
- famous family; prestigious house
- surname and given name; full name
- Sui (581-617) and Tang dynasties (618-907)
- 荣 róng: 荣 rong2: glory; honor; thriving荣 Róng: 荣 Rong2: surname Rong
- see 太原市[Tai4 yuan2 Shi4]
- see 滎陽市|荥阳市[Xing2 yang2 Shi4]
- mound; tomb; hill; mountain
- see 隴西縣|陇西县[Long3 xi1 Xian4]
- (bound form) to rely on; (literary) one's mother
- race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)
- (bound form) shame; humiliation; disgrace
- low; base; vulgar; inferior; humble
- servant girl; maid
- Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
- to order sb around; (coll.) to handle (a draught animal, tool, machine etc); Taiwan pr. [shi3 huan4]
- to recite poetry
- to dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc); to contaminate; to add color washes to a painting
- to walk around; to move about; to stretch one's legs; to go for a walk; to be mobile (e.g. after an illness); to visit one another; to socialize; to pay a visit (go to the toilet)