Vocabulary: 草枕
- 姥 lǎo: 姥 lao3: grandma (maternal)姥 mǔ: 姥 mu3: governess; old woman
- sinister appearance; monster-like appearance
- to pervade; to fill the air; diffuse; everywhere present; about to inundate (water); permeated by (smoke); filled with (dust); to saturate (the air with fog, smoke etc)
- famous painting
- at set dates; at regular intervals; periodic; limited to a fixed period of time; fixed term
- to act (in a play); to perform; to put on (a performance); performance; concert; show; CL:場|场[chang3],次[ci4]
- unusual; special; very; especially; particularly; expressly; for a specific purpose; (often followed by 是[shi4]) in particular
- regular; usual; normal; usually; normally
- 春秋 Chūn qīu: 春秋 Chun1 qiu1: Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State (722-481 BC)春秋 chūn qīu: 春秋 chun1 qiu1: spring and autumn; four seasons; year; a person's age; annals (used in book titles)
- to screen (a movie); to stage (a play); a screening; a staging
- repertoire; program; song; piece of music
- for the most part; many; most; the greater part; mostly
- 常 cháng: 常 chang2: always; ever; often; frequently; common; general; constant常 Cháng: 常 Chang2: surname Chang
- 广 yǎn: 广 yan3: "house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc广 guǎng: 广 guang3: wide; numerous; to spread广 Guǎng: 广 Guang3: surname Guang
- name of a river; rushing of water
- disciple; follower; hanger-on (at an aristocrat's home)
- to pass away; to die
- teacher
- to pray for; to appeal
- dark; deep; stupid; the underworld
- an unidentified fragrant plant mentioned in the Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞[Chu3 ci2]; used in 芭蕉[ba1 jiao1]; used in transliteration
- 焦 Jiāo: 焦 Jiao1: surname Jiao焦 jiāo: 焦 jiao1: burnt; scorched; charred; worried; anxious; coke; joule (abbr. for 焦耳[jiao1 er3])
- to join; to fit; to mate; to mix; to match; to deserve; to make up (a prescription); to allocate
- Japanese language
- to chant the sutras
- tune; melody; tuning; cadence; intonation; (speech) tone
- to pray to Buddha; to chant the names of Buddha
- to chant; to recite
- 周游 zhōu yóu: 周游 zhou1 you2: to travel around; to tour; to cross周游 zhōu yóu: 周游 zhou1 you2: to travel around
- in all parts of (a country); various regions
- time; season; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 语 yù: 语 yu4: (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know语 yǔ: 语 yu3: dialect; language; speech
- 金 Jīn: 金 Jin1: surname Jin; surname Kim (Korean); Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234)金 jīn: 金 jin1: gold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals; money; golden; highly respected; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
- to be abbreviated to; abbreviation; short form
- woman
- hair worn in a bun or coil
- to comb; (bound form) a comb
- seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
- graceful; fine; elegant
- wedding ceremony; wedding; CL:場|场[chang3]
- still; as before; yet
- United Kingdom (UK); Britain
- representative; delegate; CL:位[wei4],個|个[ge4],名[ming2]; to represent; to stand for; on behalf of; in the name of
- to describe; to depict; to portray
- Shakespeare (name); William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright