Vocabulary: 家
- 国 gúo: 国 guo2: country; nation; state; (bound form) national国 Gúo: 国 Guo2: surname Guo
- favor; grace; kindness; (coll.) used like 嗯[en4] in online chat, expressing agreement
- to celebrate
- long-lived people, rich harvests (idiom); stable and affluent society; prosperity
- broadsword; large knife; machete
- lit. able to support both heaven and earth; of indomitable spirit (idiom)
- color; multicolored
- door god
- to stop; to prohibit; until; only
- gray; ash gray; grizzly; pessimistic; gloomy; dispirited; ambiguous
- 下面 xià miàn: 下面 xia4 mian4: below; under; next; the following; also pr. [xia4 mian5]下面 xià miàn: 下面 xia4 mian4: to boil noodles
- to pile up; to heap up; a mass; pile; heap; stack; large amount
- slab; flagstone; slate
- courtyard; atrium; opening in a roof; skylight; caisson ceiling; (TCM) acupuncture point TB10
- a support; to raise; to bolster; to jack up
- both sides; either side
- plum blossom; clubs ♣ (a suit in card games); (dialect) wintersweet
- branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc
- left; the left side; to the left of
- wing (of a traditional house); side room
- first class; category A
- to be just about to; to be on the point of
- to surmount; to cross over
- doorstep; sill; threshold; fig. knack or trick (esp. scheme to get sth cheaper)
- girl; young lady
- 左 Zǔo: 左 Zuo3: surname Zuo左 zǔo: 左 zuo3: left; the Left (politics); east; unorthodox; queer; wrong; differing; opposite
- see 正房[zheng4 fang2]
- window; CL:扇[shan4]
- just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that
- to ask; to invite; please (do sth); to treat (to a meal etc); to request
- inside; interior
- visitor; guest; customer; client; CL:位[wei4]
- slave girl; servant girl
- brain; mind; head; essence
- to hang (down); droop; dangle; bend down; hand down; bequeath; nearly; almost; to approach
- braid
- cotton-padded jacket
- to wrap around; bundle; parcel; package; to press into service; to pressgang; to make off with (sth)