Vocabulary: 家
- to receive
- initial; preliminary; tentative
- Xintiandi (shopping, eating and entertainment district of Shanghai)
- real (people); living (artist); while still alive (e.g. skinned alive)
- to easily trust; gullible; naïve
- to put sth together from component parts
- point of view; viewpoint; standpoint; CL:個|个[ge4]
- even more (so)
- perhaps; maybe
- diagram; picture; drawing; chart; map; CL:張|张[zhang1]; to plan; to scheme; to attempt; to pursue; to seek
- child
- ancient costume; period costume (in movies etc)
- to chop off
- to throw oneself into sth
- vast body of water; CL:片[pian4]
- (double-edged) sword (esp. a valuable or famous one); CL:把[ba3]
- (dialect) neck
- to bind; to tie; lace; noose (for suicide); hangman's noose
- convenient; handy; easy; bento (a meal in a partitioned box); lunchbox
- princess (in Europe)
- serious fire (in a city or a forest etc)
- 宫 Gōng: 宫 Gong1: surname Gong宫 gōng: 宫 gong1: palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale
- to burn to death
- remains (of a dead person)
- to level the land; level ground; plain
- of the same generation; person of the same generation; peer
- to force; to compel; to coerce
- even now; until now; right up to the present
- an extravagant hope; to have excessive expectations
- mean treatment; indifference; meager hospitality
- old-fashioned; out of date; obsolete; antiquated
- tip (of pencil, spear etc); sharp point; cutting edge; spearhead; vanguard
- A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹[Cao2 Xue3 qin2], one of the four great novels
- sin; crime; wrongdoing