Vocabulary: 繁花
- to hang oneself
- pedicab driver
- to sign up; to enter one's name; to apply; to register; to enroll; to enlist
- border area; borderland; frontier; frontier region
- loose; slack; (fig.) to soften (policies, tone of voice); to give some slack; (of a place) not crowded
- (idiom) to have good weather for crops
- to emerge; to pop up; to spring forth; to appear from nowhere
- (bound form) to sprout; to bud; (coll.) cute; adorable (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 萌え "moe", affection for an anime or manga character)
- used in 黃檗|黄檗[huang2 bo4]
- women (in general)
- World War II
- pregnant; to have conceived; gestation; pregnancy
- to be expecting; to be with child
- to reproduce; to propagate
- juncture; moment
- to doubt; to distrust; unconvincing; to puzzle over; misgivings; suspicions
- grave; serious; severe; critical
- folk story; folktale
- popular tradition; folk legend
- Japanese (language)
- (of animals) hybrid; (of people) mixed-blood; mixed-race
- Meiji, Japanese era name, corresponding to the reign (1868-1912) of the Meiji emperor
- 種 zhòng: 種 zhong4: to plant; to grow; to cultivate種 zhǒng: 種 zhong3: seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts
- to improve (sth); to reform (a system)
- (bound form) form; appearance; shape; (bound form) state; condition; (bound form) to describe; (bound form) written complaint; lawsuit; (bound form) certificate
- hairstyle; coiffure; hairdo
- to dress; to be dressed; clothing; apparel
- how
- 服 fù: 服 fu4: classifier for medicine: dose; Taiwan pr. [fu2]服 fú: 服 fu2: clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes
- after the war; postwar
- characteristic; diagnostic property; distinctive feature; trait
- rumor; hearsay
- to express; to convey
- to diminish; to demote; to reduce or devaluate; to disparage; to censure; to depreciate
- excellent quality
- gentleman
- to experience for oneself
- style of conversation
- rank; grade; quality; (aesthetic) taste
- (bound form) large; big; (bound form) master's degree (abbr. for 碩士|硕士[shuo4 shi4])
- liaison (in phonetics)
- to cultivate; to train; to groom; training
- (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc)