I finished this episode on May 14, 2021 but only had time to post the vocabulary now. I am grateful for the advance in technology making apps such as Google Lens, which I started using on March 23, 2021. This allows me to check up words by taking a picture of it, in case I cannot find it via pinyin or on Pleco. Pleco has been such a huge game changer for me, before this app I was stuck checking up each word in a dictionary in print and having to either guess at the pinyin or guess at the radical. I really don't think I would have been able to make much progress without it. Another great resource is YellowBridge, which has an online dictionary that pronounces the words and displays the stroke order.
Similar Words
Again, I get tripped up by words that look similar such as 处 chǔ versus 外 wài, it also doesn't help that the meanings are both about places.
1. (11:16) 处 chǔ to reside; to live; to dwell; to be in; to be situated at; to stay; to get along
with; to be in a position of; to deal with; to discipline; to punish
2. 外 wài outside; in addition; foreign; external
Another pair of words that I often mix up is 往 wǎng and 住 zhù, the meaning is nearly the opposite.
1. (20:25) 往 wǎng to go (in a direction); to; towards; (of a train) bound for; past; previous
2. 住 zhù to live; to dwell; to stay; to reside; to stop; (suffix indicating firmness,
steadiness, or coming to a halt)
Vocabulary
1. (7:51) 启程 qǐchéng to set out on a journey
启 qǐ to open; to start; to initiate; to enlighten or awaken; to state; to inform; Qi son
of Yu the Great 禹, reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝 (c. 2070-c. 1600 BC)
程 chéng rule; order; regulations; formula; journey; procedure; sequence; (Chinese
surname)
2. (11:33) 吉利 jílì auspicious; lucky; propitious; Geely, Chinese car make
吉 jí lucky; giga- (meaning billion or 10^9); (Chinese surname); abbr. for Jilin
Province 吉林省
利 lì sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit;
(Chinese surname)
3. (12:55) 不屑 bùxiè to disdain to do something; to think something not worth doing;
to feel it beneath one's dignity
屑 xiè bits; fragments; crumbs; filings; trifling; trivial; to condescend to
4. (14:07) 伎俩 jìliǎng trick; scheme; ploy; tactic; stratagem; gimmick; ruse; trickery;
skill; also written 技俩
伎 jì craft
俩 liǎng liǎ two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some
5. (7:14) 青梅竹马 qīng méi zhúmǎ lit. green plums and hobby-horse (idiom); fig. innocent
children's games; childhood sweethearts; a couple who grew up as childhood friends
青 qīng nature's color; green or blue; greenish black; youth; young (of people);
abbr. for 青海, Qinghai Province
梅 méi plum; plum flower; Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); (Chinese surname)
竹马 zhúmǎ bamboo stick used as a toy horse
6. (8:57) 木已成舟 mù yǐ chéng zhōu lit. the timber has been turned into a boat already
(idiom); fig. what is done cannot be undone
7. (7:36) 停车吃罚单 to get a parking ticket
停车 tíngchē to pull up (stop one's vehicle); to park; (of a machine) to stop working; to
stall
吃 chī to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to
absorb; to suffer; to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])
罚单 fádān violation ticket; infringement notice
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