Vocabulary: 繁花
- widow
- to remarry (of a woman)
- decorated archway
- rooster
- memorial arch
- (literary) affair; matter; business; (dialect) item; thing; stuff
- battery; electric cell; CL:節|节[jie2],組|组[zu3]
- eggplant (Solanum melongena L.); aubergine; brinjal; Guinea squash; phonetic "cheese" (when being photographed); equivalent of "say cheese"
- IOU; informal document acknowledging a debt
- 壮 zhuàng: 壮 zhuang4: to strengthen; strong; robust壮 Zhuàng: 壮 Zhuang4: Zhuang ethnic group, the largest ethnic minority in China
- thick paste of fermented soybean; marinated in soy paste; paste; jam
- sesame oil
- to mix; to mix in; to toss (a salad)
- to cut up (into pieces); to slice; to carve; to dice; to shred
- minced meat
- to float; to deep-fry
- vegetable garden
- to fabricate (a story)
- to rescue
- luffa; loofah; sponge gourd
- bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)
- gourd
- to win a prize
- to string together; to skewer; to connect wrongly; to gang up; to rove; string; bunch; skewer; classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across
- exhaust fan
- (onom.) sound of the wind or the breathing of sb who is sound asleep
- minor road; lane; pathway; trail
- thin, tough silk fabric
- wood shavings
- bright
- pink
- leaflet; flier; pamphlet
- fortune-telling; to tell fortune
- 三元 Sān yuán: 三元 San1 yuan2: see 三元區|三元区[San1 yuan2 Qu1]三元 sān yuán: 三元 san1 yuan2: (old) first place in civil service examinations at three levels: provincial 解元[jie4 yuan2], metropolitan 會元|会元[hui4 yuan2] and palace 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2]
- 欲 yù: 欲 yu4: desire; appetite; passion; lust; greed欲 yù: 欲 yu4: to wish for; to desire
- future (career etc) prospects
- sweet; cute; delicately pretty
- dirty; filthy; foul; corrupt; to smear; to defile; dirt; filth
- integrity; moral principle
- blood relation; kin; one's flesh and blood