Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- disorderly; confused; chaotic
- when
- finger; toe; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 过来 gùo lai: 过来 guo4 lai5: see 過來|过来[guo4 lai2]过来 gùo lái: 过来 guo4 lai2: to come over; to manage; to handle; to be able to take care of
- amount; quantity; quantitative; (math.) scalar quantity
- to wait until; by the time when (sth is ready etc)
- tactful; euphemistic; (of voice etc) suave; soft
- explanation; to explain; to interpret; to resolve; CL:個|个[ge4]
- husband's father; father-in-law; grandpa; grandad; (old) form of address for a eunuch
- husband's mother; mother-in-law; grandma
- Yangzhou, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省[Jiang1 su1 Sheng3]
- Hanjiang, a district of Yangzhou City 揚州市|扬州市[Yang2 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu
- to use as an excuse; excuse; pretext
- Mozi (c. 470–391 BC), founder of the Mohist School 墨家[Mo4 jia1], which flourished during the Warring States period (475–220 BC)
- unnatural death; violent death
- common people
- 毁 hǔi: 毁 hui3: to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander毁 hǔi: 毁 hui3: to destroy by fire毁 hǔi: 毁 hui3: to defame; to slander
- Emperor Suzong of Tang (711-762), reign name of eighth Tang emperor Li Heng 李亨[Li3 Heng1], reigned 756-762
- Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄; Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897; Korea, esp. South Korea 大韓民國|大韩民国; surname Han
- assist; ready to fly; respect
- 蕃 fán: 蕃 fan2: luxuriant; flourishing; to reproduce; to proliferate蕃 fān: 蕃 fan1: foreign (non-Chinese)蕃 bō: 蕃 bo1: see 吐蕃[Tu3 bo1]
- used for the sound "zha" in the names of certain legendary figures (e.g. 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]); Taiwan pr. [zha4]
- to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 劫波[jie2 bo1]
- 俊 zùn: 俊 zun4: (dialectal pronunciation of 俊[jun4]); cool; neat俊 jùn: 俊 jun4: smart; eminent; handsome; talented
- assistance; aid; to help; to assist
- 复合 fù hé: 复合 fu4 he2: (of people who were estranged) to be reconciled; (of a couple) to get back together复合 fù hé: 复合 fu4 he2: complex; compound; composite; hybrid; to compound; to combine
- to include (in a collection); to put together (stories, poems etc); to record; to employ; to recruit
- Extensive records of the Taiping era (978), fictional history edited by Li Fang 李昉
- inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during
- influential officials; bigwigs
- 量 liáng: 量 liang2: to measure量 liàng: 量 liang4: capacity; quantity; amount; to estimate; abbr. for 量詞|量词[liang4 ci2], classifier (in Chinese grammar); measure word
- traditional Chinese medicine; CL:服[fu4]
- to criticize
- to pawn; pawnshop
- clothes; CL:件[jian4],套[tao4]
- difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation
- to call; to address as; form of address; appellation
- authorities; feudal official
- to lodge an accusation; accusation (law)
- 你 nǐ: 你 ni3: you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2])你 nǐ: 你 ni3: you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
- disgraceful (of behavior that is unfilial, rebellious or otherwise in grave breach of the norms of society)