Kamus Bahasa Mandarin

taboo (word); unmentionable word

mess hall for high-ranking cadres; (fig.) special treatment; cf. 大灶[da4 zao4]

curtained carriage used by women; to gather together; to assemble

dimple; heat-sensing facial pit of a snake

catapult; slingshot

to provoke; to tease

moon rock

variant of 補丁|补丁[bu3 ding5]

white cloud

Beijing Language Institute; former name of 北京語言大學|北京语言大学[Bei3 jing1 Yu3 yan2 Da4 xue2] Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU)

phono-semantic compound character

beggar

very fierce

hydroxide radical (-OH)

square cun (Chinese unit of area: 1 cun × 1 cun, or 3⅓ cm × 3⅓ cm); heart; mind

to show off; to flaunt

(literary) the vast sky; (finance) eventual downturn; poor prospects in the long term

to have a sentimental attachment to (a place); to miss (one's ancestral home etc); to be nostalgic about

to beg piteously; to supplicate

Potomac River

strange and paradoxical

ice age

drinking party; wine reception

(literary) children's hairstyle with hair tied into a bun on both sides of the head; (fig.) childhood