Kamus Bahasa Mandarin

see 來賓市|来宾市[Lai2 bin1 Shi4]

depressed; dispirited; dejected

(dialect) cook; chef

to transform phlegm (TCM)

to ask oneself honestly; to search in one's heart

lit. to seek virtue and acquire it (idiom); fig. to have one's wish fulfilled

One-China principle, the official doctrine that Taiwan is a province of China

electro-weak interaction in fermion particle physics

investment bank

to rob the state and hurt the people (idiom)

Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing

to waste time on worthless activities

to reform and open to the outside world; refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980

jitterbug (loanword)

father's wife (term used by the children of a concubine to address their father's primary wife)

Book of Jonah

a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical); scholar; skillful writer; fine talent

(Protestantism) Rahab, mother of Boaz

variant of 閹|阉[yan1]; to castrate; variant of 淹[yan1]; to delay

chiral; chirality (chemistry)

straightforward

(bird species of China) black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)

miserable wretch; contemptible individual

(idiom) not want to be outdone; not content to lag behind