Kamus Bahasa Mandarin

see 會昌縣|会昌县[Hui4 chang1 Xian4]

Baisha or Paisha township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县[Peng2 hu2 xian4] (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan

(Tw) (bird species of China) Blyth's pipit (Anthus godlewskii)

to frustrate; to inhibit; to make things difficult

to struggle arduously

Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白筍|茭白笋[jiao1 bai2 sun3], which is swollen by a smut fungus; variant of 菇[gu1]

nouveau riche; upstart; new appointee

creative; creativity

to take time off; to take leave (e.g. for study); to skive off work

sodium bicarbonate

(of a high-ranking official) to wear plain clothes in order to go about incognito

ticket price; fare; admission fee

mic hog; person who monopolizes the mike at karaoke party (hegemon 霸 of the microphone 麥克風|麦克风)

choline (amine related to vitamin B complex)

full of joy and expectations; animatedly

used in 豇豆[jiang1 dou4]

hereditary office

to quench

to lose; to leave behind (inadvertently)

to sell only for a good price (idiom); to wait for a good offer

Hantai, a district of Hanzhong City 漢中市|汉中市[Han4 zhong1 Shi4], Shaanxi

race-replica motorcycle; street-legal motorcycle styled after racing bikes

picul (100 catties, 50 kg); two buckets full; carrying pole and its load; classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole

variant of 倉庚|仓庚[cang1 geng1]