Vocabulary: 繁花
- (idiom) decadent music
- chilling; chilly
- spoken lines in opera
- branch; stem; stalk; CL:根[gen1]; to block; to hinder; (neologism that evolved from 哏[gen2], initially in Taiwan, during the first decade of the 21st century) memorable creative idea (joke, catchphrase, meme, neologism, witty remark etc); prominent feature of a creative work (punchline of a joke, trope in a drama, special ingredient in a dish, riff in a pop song etc)
- (female) maid
- to detour; to bypass; to circumvent; to avoid; to wind around (of a road etc)
- to air-dry; to season (timber etc); air-dried; air-drying
- Chinese hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida)
- to mourn; to lament
- to disobey; to violate; to separate; to go against
- to describe; to depict; to portray; depiction; portrayal
- kaleidoscope
- seed; CL:顆|颗[ke1],粒[li4]
- lewd comment; vulgar joke
- improved type; good breed; pedigree
- sometimes good, sometimes bad
- to confess without being pressed; to make a confession without duress
- to express sympathy, greetings, consolation etc
- even; even if; even though; no matter how
- (of an entrepreneur) to buy up a struggling business; (finance) to snap up shares sold off by others; (neologism) (slang) to take as a girlfriend a woman who was dumped by her ex for sleeping around
- interest in sth; curiosity; inquisitive
- 大意 dà yì: 大意 da4 yi4: general idea; main idea大意 dà yi: 大意 da4 yi5: careless
- pregnant
- storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary
- Wu Zetian (624-705), Tang empress, reigned 690-705
- (of a cadre etc) to work for a period of time with a grassroots unit to gain firsthand experience; (dialect) taking a crap
- to enter the emperor's palace; (slang) to go to jail
- Tai Sui, God of the year; archaic name for the planet Jupiter 木星[Mu4 xing1]; nickname for sb who is the most powerful in an area
- (of immortals) to descend to the human world
- different; other; hetero-; unusual; strange; surprising; to distinguish; to separate; to discriminate
- 秉 Bǐng: 秉 Bing3: surname Bing秉 bǐng: 秉 bing3: to grasp; to hold; to maintain
- to strut; swaggering
- to make secret inquiries; to investigate in secret