Vocabulary: 南方与北方
- young child; infant; preschooler
- 室 shì: 室 shi4: room; work unit; grave; scabbard; family or clan; one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy室 Shì: 室 Shi4: surname Shi
- busy; hurriedly; to hurry; to rush
- to arrange; to tidy up; to sort out; to straighten out; to list systematically; to collate (data, files); to pack (luggage)
- lace; decorative border
- to mutter; to mumble complaints; to grumble
- to complain; to grumble; to harbor a complaint; to feel dissatisfied
- to accept or reject
- 房 Fáng: 房 Fang2: surname Fang房 fáng: 房 fang2: house; room; CL:間|间[jian1]; branch of an extended family; classifier for family members (or concubines)
- all sides
- nine; 9
- field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral
- gas; air; smell; weather; to make angry; to annoy; to get angry; vital energy; qi
- home
- 玩 wán: 玩 wan2: to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wan4]); to keep sth for entertainment玩 wán: 玩 wan2: Taiwan pr. [wan4]
- to read a book; to study; to attend school
- (the) very first
- to remember
- gloomy
- dark; darkly; darkness
- external; outside; outward appearance
- outmoded; old-fashioned; inflexible
- nanny; babysitter; housekeeper
- to look after; to provide for
- unusual; special; very; especially; particularly; expressly; for a specific purpose; (often followed by 是[shi4]) in particular
- to pay particular attention to; carefully selected for quality; tastefully chosen
- hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- clean; to clean
- outer clothing; semblance; appearance
- (literary) to put in good order; to make shipshape; (literary) orderly; neat; tidy
- 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 recall; to think of; to call to mind
- tea and cake; refreshments; tea and dim sum
- stair; staircase; CL:個|个[ge4]
- simply; really
- desperately serious; disastrous; extremely; exceedingly
- the sky; the heavens
- otherwise; or else; or
- deep; profound
- 藏 Zàng: 藏 Zang4: Tibetan ethnic group; Tibet Autonomous Region (short name for 西藏自治區|西藏自治区[Xi1 zang4 Zi4 zhi4 qu1])藏 cáng: 藏 cang2: to conceal; to hide away; to harbor; to store; to collect藏 zàng: 藏 zang4: storehouse; depository; Buddhist or Taoist scripture
- to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1 chai1]); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1 jia1])
- to dress and groom oneself