Vocabulary: 繁花
- river bank
- 牛 níu: 牛 niu2: ox; cow; bull; CL:條|条[tiao2],頭|头[tou2]; newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿[niu2 dun4]); (slang) awesome牛 Níu: 牛 Niu2: surname Niu
- tongue; CL:個|个[ge4]; enemy soldier captured for the purpose of extracting information
- grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough; CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]
- poison; to poison; poisonous; malicious; cruel; fierce; narcotics
- 哪 na: 哪 na5: (emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")哪 né: 哪 ne2: used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]; Taiwan pr. [nuo2]哪 něi: 哪 nei3: which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)哪 nǎ: 哪 na3: how; which
- pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on
- must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot
- 喽 lóu: 喽 lou2: (bound form) subordinates in a gang of bandits喽 lou: 喽 lou5: (final particle equivalent to 了[le5]); (particle calling attention to, or mildly warning of, a situation)
- (coll.) to die; to kick the bucket
- to collect or retrieve a corpse (for burial or cremation); to claim a body
- car or other vehicle (bicycle, truck etc)
- every day
- difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation
- steel
- pot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing; hotpot
- saving; to save; to use sparingly; to cut down on
- coupons for food or grain used in a PRC economic program c. 1955-1993
- to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (bound form) expense; outlay; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore
- brown rice
- 粥 zhōu: 粥 zhou1: congee; gruel; porridge; CL:碗[wan3]粥 yù: 粥 yu4: used in 葷粥|荤粥[Xun1 yu4]
- circumstances; situation; terrain; CL:個|个[ge4]
- like this; so; such
- apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- each and every family (idiom); every household
- sweet potato
- muddled; silly; confused
- pavilion (usu. two-storied); cabinet (politics); boudoir; woman's chamber; rack; shelf
- place above (it); upper part (of it)
- 冒 Mào: 冒 Mao4: surname Mao冒 mào: 冒 mao4: to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; (bound form) reckless; to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign; (literary) to cover
- 全家 Quán jiā: 全家 Quan2 jia1: FamilyMart (convenience store chain)全家 quán jiā: 全家 quan2 jia1: whole family
- to dine; to have one's meal
- before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand
- a move; an action; in one move; at a stroke; in one go
- slow
- to scald; to burn (by scalding); to blanch (cooking); to heat (sth) up in hot water; to perm; to iron; scalding hot
- 费 Fèi: 费 Fei4: surname Fei费 fèi: 费 fei4: to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses
- 冷 Lěng: 冷 Leng3: surname Leng冷 lěng: 冷 leng3: cold
- both hands
- to hold; to grasp; to clench (one's fist); (bound form) to have in one's control; classifier: a handful
- to pray; prayer
- to bow to; to pay one's respects; (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion); to make a courtesy call; (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony; to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc); (used before some verbs to indicate politeness)
- to seek; to look for; to request; to demand; to beseech