Vocabulary: 永夜君王
- jadeite; tree kingfisher
- ornamental thumb ring (originally a ring, often made from jade, worn by archers in ancient times to protect the right thumb when drawing a bowstring)
- to guard against; to exhort; to admonish or warn; to give up or stop doing sth; Buddhist monastic discipline; ring (for a finger)
- organizer
- thunder and lightning
- to retreat into; to draw back into; (typography) to indent
- inside information; the ins and outs of the matter; how things stand; what's up
- to execute (a plan); to grasp
- clear; bright
- 浩然 hào rán: 浩然 hao4 ran2: vast; expansive; overwhelming浩然 Hào Rán: 浩然 Hao4 Ran2: Hao Ran (1932-2008), journalist and proletarian novelist
- to last for a long time; to endure; to exist forever
- to toast sb (with wine etc); to drink a toast
- all speaking together; in chorus
- to take liberties with a woman; to dally; to assail a woman with obscenities
- to lie; to crouch
- to change clothes; to go to the toilet (euphemism)
- daytime
- to take up one's pen; to start to write
- to draw; to paint; to create artwork
- fine writing paper, originally from Jing county 涇縣|泾县, Xuancheng 宣城, Anhui
- to put pen to paper
- neither too fast nor too slow (idiom)
- thick and thin; coarse and fine; thickness (caliber); coarseness; quality of work
- modulation (rising and falling pitch); intonation; a cadence; to rise and fall (of a body floating in water)
- a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes; a cadence; punctuated by a transition; with syncopated cadence (brush stroke in painting)
- shade (of a color, i.e. light or dark)
- pen and ink; words; writing
- (of literature, art) distinct style; flavor; spirit; character
- lit. ready to appear at the call (idiom); fig. on the verge of coming out into the open; (of a person's choice etc) on the point of being disclosed; (of an artistic depiction) vividly portrayed
- gongbi, traditional Chinese painting method characterized by meticulous brush technique and detailed description
- 写意 xiě yì: 写意 xie3 yi4: to suggest (rather than depict in detail); freehand style of Chinese painting, characterized by bold strokes rather than accurate details写意 xiè yì: 写意 xie4 yi4: comfortable; enjoyable; relaxed
- to combine; to link; to integrate; binding; CL:次[ci4]
- painting technique; drawing method
- clothes and ornaments
- the flat area of forehead between the eyebrows; glabella
- to knit (one's brows); wrinkled (of brows); to hesitate; distressed
- to write; to do the actual writing
- respectful; solemn; awed