Vocabulary: 繁花
- suspenders (for stockings)
- low-cut (dress); plunging (neckline)
- cigarette ash
- outfit or suit (of clothes); set of coordinated items; kit
- pressed cosmetic powder (formed into a cake); compact powder
- pearl (CL:顆|颗[ke1],粒[li4]); (fig.) teardrop; tear
- stud earring
- 唐 Táng: 唐 Tang2: Tang dynasty (618–907); surname Tang唐 táng: 唐 tang2: to exaggerate; empty; in vain
- the final (of a syllable) (Chinese phonology); rhyme; appeal; charm; (literary) pleasant sound
- to sit and wait; (fig.) to be passive; to sit back and wait for (success, an opportunity etc)
- upper garment
- beautiful; sweet; engaging
- my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife
- hastily
- confused; vague; indistinct; muddle-headed; mixed up; in a daze
- (of a wife) to return to her parental home; (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
- ordinary; common; usually; ordinarily
- hasty; hurried
- safe deposit box; safe
- (romantic) love; CL:個|个[ge4],場|场[chang3]; in love; to have an affair
- at the same time; simultaneously
- 追 dūi: 追 dui1: to sculpt; to carve; musical instrument (old)追 zhūi: 追 zhui1: to chase; to pursue; to look into; to investigate; to reminisce; to recall; to court (one's beloved); to binge-watch (a TV drama); retroactively; posthumously
- lotus flower (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn, among others); water-lily
- it seems; it looks as if
- physiology
- fault; defect; shortcomings; ailment; CL:個|个[ge4]
- psychology; mentality
- to heed; to pay attention to
- crucial point; crux; CL:個|个[ge4]; key; crucial; pivotal
- to take the lead; to be first to start
- clean; neat
- to sigh; to exclaim
- one breath; in one breath; at a stretch
- coup d'état
- newly married
- pure; clean and honest; to purify
- experience; to go through; to experience
- joke; jest; to laugh at; to mock; ridiculous; absurd
- (coll.) father's married sister; paternal aunt
- husband of paternal aunt
- footprint
- shoe polish
- brush; scrub; CL:把[ba3]
- trace; impression (e.g. footprint); abbr. of 印子錢|印子钱[yin4 zi5 qian2], usury