- village; (dialect) to scold; rustic; boorish
- 家 jiā: 家 jia1: used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]家 jiā: 家 jia1: home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to make a fermented drink (i.e. to brew beer, make wine etc)
- to pan fry; to sauté
- tea; tea plant; CL:杯[bei1],壺|壶[hu2]
- fruit; result; resolute; indeed; if really
- to know from experience; to learn through experience; to realize; understanding; experience
- 千 qiān: 千 qian1: thousand千 qiān: 千 qian1: used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]
- to sigh with sorrow, regret etc; rueful; deeply moved
- this kind of
- sentiment; feeling
- A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹[Cao2 Xue3 qin2], one of the four great novels
- to pervade; to fill the air; diffuse; everywhere present; about to inundate (water); permeated by (smoke); filled with (dust); to saturate (the air with fog, smoke etc)
- ample; sufficient; adequate; full; fully; to the full
- to call it...; known as...
- (literary) (of moonlight) dim; (literary) murky; indistinct
- 美 měi: 美 mei3: beautiful; very satisfactory; good; to beautify; to be pleased with oneself美 Měi: 美 Mei3: (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 美洲[Mei3 zhou1]); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美國|美国[Mei3 guo2])
- in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto
- author; writer
- one kind of; one type of
- last phase (of an age)
- to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~
- Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences
- the theory of evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化論|进化论)
- to publish
- people
- slowly; gradually
- to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce
- point of view; viewpoint; standpoint; CL:個|个[ge4]
- now; at present; currently
- apparently; it seems that
- funny; ridiculous
- (of written or spoken material) easy to understand; accessible
- primary school student; schoolchild; CL:個|个[ge4],名[ming2]; (fig.) beginner
- clear; obvious; unequivocal; sensible; reasonable; to understand; to realize
- it is a pity; what a pity; unfortunately
- 崇 chóng: 崇 chong2: high; sublime; lofty; to esteem; to worship崇 Chóng: 崇 Chong2: surname Chong
- country; nation
- since (a time); ever since
- to spare no pains or effort (idiom); to do one's utmost
- to describe; to depict; to portray