Vocabulary: 繁花
- to cover up (a shortcoming); to screen off; to hide; to conceal
- public property
- the public; the state; society; the public purse
- qualities that make sth worth seeing (or reading)
- alcohol drunk to drown one's sorrows
- the ways of the world; the morals of the time
- (idiom) to be duped; to get scammed
- 粒子 lì zi: 粒子 li4 zi5: grain (of rice); granule粒子 lì zǐ: 粒子 li4 zi3: (elementary) particle; grain
- to emerge and grow; to develop
- kidney
- to appear; to look; form; shape
- (idiom) in deadly earnest; deadpan
- demure; prudish; hypocritical
- sophisticated; advanced (technology etc); meritorious; exemplary (deeds etc)
- uprising; insurrection; revolt
- professor; to instruct; to lecture on; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- food and drink; food to accompany wine
- more than half; greater part; most; probably; most likely
- sissy; effeminate
- (of a performer) to put on a show at an outdoor venue (temple fair, marketplace etc); (fig.) to enhance sb's reputation; to make a name for oneself
- first class; category A
- horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc)
- ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs; pot (dialect); to enter upon a period of (classical); Kangxi radical 206; one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes
- water mains; service pipe; tap-water pipe
- to weld; to braze; to solder
- spatula; scraper
- javelin
- 弓 Gōng: 弓 Gong1: surname Gong弓 gōng: 弓 gong1: a bow (weapon); CL:張|张[zhang1]; to bend; to arch (one's back etc)
- see 五原縣|五原县[Wu3 yuan2 Xian4]
- ocean; (old) silver dollar; (slang) Chinese yuan
- chamber pot
- younger brother; junior male; I (modest word in letter)
- shoulder; upper arm
- to breathe; to suck in; to absorb; to inhale
- seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
- to tattoo; a tattoo
- only; merely; just
- carmine; magenta
- fingertip; finger