韓非子

Question 1

藏

Answer 1

Zàng, to store up or hide

Question 2

愈

Answer 2

Yù, increasingly

Question 3

貧

Answer 3

Pín, poor

Question 4

耕

Answer 4

Gēng, to plough, agriculture

Question 5

耒

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Lêi, plough

Question 6

執

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Zhí, to grasp or hold

Question 7

吳

Answer 7

Wú, wu qi: a philosopher of warring States. Also the name of a state.

Question 8

被

Answer 8

Bèi, to cover, spread or wear; a duvet; marker of passive voice

Question 9

甲

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Jiã, armour; fingernails; first, to excel

Question 10

賞

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Shãng, reward , to appreciate

Question 11

修

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Xiū, to cultivate ; to study; to repair; long, extended

Question 12

實

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Shí, full; fullness; reality, substance

Question 13

孰

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shú, which one? (Of several)

Question 14

吏

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Lì, officials or minor officials

Question 15

簡

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Jiãn, strip of bamboo wood; simple; to select

Question 16

患

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Huàn, disaster, cause for worry; to treat as a calamity, to worry about; to contract an illness

Question 17

制

Answer 17

Zhì, to control or regulate; institution

Question 18

骨

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Gû, bone

Question 19

骨肉

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Gûròu, bone and flesh; like English ‘flesh and blood’

Question 20

親

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Qīn, closeness, intimacy; Kin; parent; to love or be close to

Question 21

縛

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fù, to tie up, to bind

Question 22

勢

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Shì, force of circumstance; situation, power

Question 23

窺

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Kuī, to watch stealthily; to spy on, to glimpse

Question 24

須臾

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Xūyú, a moment; instantaneous

Question 25

怠

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Dài, lazy or idle; to neglect

Question 26

傲

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Ào, proud or conceited; to defy

Question 27

世

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Generation/world

Question 28

劫

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Jié, to take by force, to coerce; disaster, misfortune

Question 29

弒

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Shì, to assassinate

Question 30

傅

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Fù, to guide, instruct, tutor; to apply

Question 31

主父

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Father of the ruler: title taken by kings dad who retired but tried to maintain control of the military

Question 32

姦

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jiān, treacherous, traitor

Question 33

乘

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Chéng, to avail oneself of; to take advantage of

Question 34

優

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Yōu, an actor; excellent; leisurely, easy; liberal; ample

Question 35

姬

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Jī, title for a concubine or mistress: "lady"

Question 36

近

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Close to; approach

Question 37

餘

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Yú, surplus, remainder; leftover

Question 38

境

Answer 38

Jìng, boundary or frontier

Question 39

猶

Answer 39

Yóu, similar, like, just as