Kamus Bahasa Mandarin

flora and fauna

Shanxi Province, capital Taiyuan 太原市[Tai4 yuan2 Shi4] (short name 晉|晋[Jin4])

Ouija board

strip of lead; (printing) slug; lead (for a propelling pencil)

(Tw) (vulgar) semen (from Taiwanese 潲, Tai-lo pr. [siâu])

see 留壩縣|留坝县[Liu2 ba4 Xian4]

to dance; to float in the wind

lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face; to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk

execution by fire; burning at the stake

moonless (night)

consumables

epidemiology

(literary) madder (Rubia cordifolia); (literary) to hunt during spring

(often used in early vernacular) but alas; however

auxin (plant growth hormone)

variant of 軲轆|轱辘[gu1 lu5]

to curl up; to huddle; to cower; cringing

panic-stricken (idiom); to be in a flustered state; also written 張惶失措|张惶失措[zhang1 huang2 shi1 cuo4]

Lin Shu (1852-1924), writer and influential translator and adaptor of vast swathes of Western literature into Classical Chinese

Zhuangzi and Laozi, the Daoist masters

coco-grass; nut sedge (Cyperus rotundus)

happy; joyful

simplified form of Chinese characters, as opposed to traditional form 繁體|繁体[fan2 ti3]

to make excuses; to give an excuse (for not doing something)