Vocabulary: 繁花
- steamship; steamer; steamboat; CL:艘[sou1]
- first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone)
- 轧 gá: 轧 ga2: to crush together (in a crowd); to make friends; to check (accounts)轧 yà: 轧 ya4: to crush; to knock sb down with a vehicle轧 zhá: 轧 zha2: to roll (steel)轧 Yà: 轧 Ya4: surname Ya
- brothers; comrade
- dealings; contacts; to go back and forth
- to rob (with force); bandit; robber; CL:個|个[ge4]
- see 江北區|江北区[Jiang1 bei3 Qu1]; Chongqing's main airport
- stealthily; secretly; covertly; furtively; on the sly
- daily; (soup etc) of the day
- funds; expenditure; CL:筆|笔[bi3]
- 混 hún: 混 hun2: Taiwan pr. [hun4]混 hùn: 混 hun4: to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless
- an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect
- 连 Lián: 连 Lian2: surname Lian连 lián: 连 lian2: to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也[ye3], 都[dou1] etc) even; company (military)
- 本事 běn shi: 本事 ben3 shi5: ability; skill本事 běn shì: 本事 ben3 shi4: source material; original story
- to learn; to study; to imitate; science; -ology
- to launch; to develop; to unfold; (of an exhibition etc) to open
- surface; face; outside; appearance
- beaming; all smiles
- whole body; from head to toe; single person; a suit of clothes
- copper coin; copper plate; copper clappers (a kind of percussion instrument); (Tw) coin
- tallest; highest; supreme (court etc)
- information; intelligence
- 蹲 dūn: 蹲 dun1: to crouch; to squat; to stay (somewhere)蹲 cún: 蹲 cun2: (dialect) to sprain one's foot or leg due to a sudden impact or landing
- prison; jail
- Wang Jingwei (1883–1944), Chinese politician who later collaborated with Japan during World War II
- band; belt; girdle; ribbon; tire; area; zone; region; CL:條|条[tiao2]; to wear; to carry; to take along; to bear (i.e. to have); to lead; to bring; to look after; to raise
- (loanword) vitamin
- 望 wàng: 望 wang4: full moon; to hope; to expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); to look towards; towards望 wàng: 望 wang4: 15th day of month (lunar calendar)
- fairy
- to visit a prisoner (usu. a relative or friend)
- to be all skin and bones (idiom); also written 皮包骨[pi2 bao1 gu3]
- 监 jiàn: 监 jian4: (bound form) supervisor; supervisory office (in imperial China)监 jiān: 监 jian1: to supervise; to inspect; jail; prison
- half a year
- to be missing; to disappear; unaccounted for
- see 浙江省[Zhe4 jiang1 Sheng3]
- landlord; landowner; host
- to marry; to get married
- unable to make sense of what one is looking at
- 法 Fǎ: 法 Fa3: France; French; abbr. for 法國|法国[Fa3 guo2]; Taiwan pr. [Fa4]法 fǎ: 法 fa3: law; method; way; to emulate; (Buddhism) dharma; (abbr. for 法家[Fa3 jia1]) the Legalists; (physics) farad (abbr. for 法拉[fa3 la1])法 fǎ: 法 fa3: law
- foreign concession, an enclave occupied by a foreign power (in China in the 19th and 20th centuries)
- to boil; to roll; to take a hike; Get lost!
- (dialect) pumpkin
- shacks; shack-dwellers; slum-dwellers
- Sanwan township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县[Miao2 li4 xian4], northwest Taiwan