Vocabulary: 繁花
- to enter a door; to go in; to learn the basics of a subject; to join one's husband's household upon marriage
- to become sworn brothers or sisters; sworn (brothers)
- profound friendship; sworn brotherhood
- color; multicolored
- wick of an oil lamp; to burn (incense etc); classifier for lit incense sticks
- Taoyuan city and county in Taiwan
- to swear brotherhood
- Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu 蜀漢|蜀汉 (c. 200-263), later the Shu Han dynasty
- to become a member; to join; to mix into; to participate in; to add in
- secret society; underworld gang
- person from the same village, town, or province
- devoted; loyal; fidelity; loyalty
- Zhuge Liang (181–234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] during the Three Kingdoms period; the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4], where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius; (fig.) a mastermind
- lifetime; generation; group of people; class; classifier for generations; (literary) classifier for people
- friendship; also pr. [yi2]
- Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager and child emperor, killed in 192 by Lü Bu 呂布|吕布
- Lü Bu (-198), general and warlord
- Yang Guifei (719-756), famous Tang beauty, consort of Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗[Tang2 Xuan2 zong1]
- An Lushan (703-757), Tang general, leader of the An-Shi Rebellion 安史之亂|安史之乱[An1 Shi3 zhi1 Luan4]
- earnestly and sincerely (idiom); with all sincerity
- to joke; joke; jest
- to have the nerve; what a cheek!; to feel no shame; to overcome the shame; (is it) proper? (rhetorical question)
- 义 Yì: 义 Yi4: surname Yi; (Tw) Italy (abbr. for 義大利|义大利[Yi4 da4 li4])义 yì: 义 yi4: justice; righteousness; meaning; foster (father etc); adopted; artificial (tooth, limb etc); relationship; friendship
- older sister; Taiwan pr. [jie3]
- Tom (name)
- if only (sth were possible); I wish (that)
- the same year
- 磨 mó: 磨 mo2: to rub; to grind; to polish; to sharpen; to wear down; to die out; to waste time; to pester; to insist磨 mò: 磨 mo4: grindstone; to grind; to turn round
- to exchange cards containing personal details (when taking an oath of fraternity)
- to know oneself; to be intimate or close; intimate friend
- blood is thicker than water; fig. family ties are closer than social relations
- army; armed forces; troops; force; unit; CL:個|个[ge4]
- comrade-in-arms; battle companion
- to unite; unity; solidarity; united