Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- 降 jiàng: 降 jiang4: to drop; to fall; to come down; to descend降 xiáng: 降 xiang2: to surrender; to capitulate; to subdue; to conquer; to tame
- 给 gěi: 给 gei3: to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier)给 jǐ: 给 ji3: to supply; to provide
- mourning garment
- to reduce; to lower; to bring down
- first class; grade A
- according to; in accordance with; on the basis of
- old system; weights and measures of former times
- Shennong or Farmer God (c. 2000 BC), first of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] and creator of agriculture
- to set oneself on fire; to self-immolate
- top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system); see 榜眼[bang3 yan3] and 探花[tan4 hua1]; top scorer in college entrance examination 高考[gao1 kao3]; (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field; leading light
- branch; twig
- tip; end; last few days
- four seasons, namely: spring 春[chun1], summer 夏[xia4], autumn 秋[qiu1] and winter 冬[dong1]
- end; tip; extremity
- land rent; land tax
- childhood
- child
- to tie up one's hair; (literary) (of a boy) to be in one's adolescence (in ancient China, boys tied up their hair)
- childhood
- younger sister's husband
- title; appellation; form of address
- 十一 shí yī: 十一 shi2 yi1: eleven; 11十一 Shí Yī: 十一 Shi2 Yi1: PRC National Day (October 1st)
- see 山東省|山东省[Shan1 dong1 Sheng3]
- Taihang Mountains on the border between Hebei and Shanxi
- to receive; to draw; to get
- official's salary (in feudal times)
- what one has learned (through experience, reading etc); knowledge; insight; understanding; tips; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- thirty; 30
- land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule
- 黔 Qián: 黔 Qian2: short name for Guizhou 貴州|贵州[Gui4 zhou1]黔 qián: 黔 qian2: (literary) black; to blacken
- hoof; pig's trotters
- 征 zhēng: 征 zheng1: journey; trip; expedition; to go on long campaign; to attack征 zhēng: 征 zheng1: to invite; to recruit; to levy (taxes); to draft (troops); phenomenon; symptom; characteristic sign (used as proof); evidence
- everywhere; in all respects
- to have a taste of; to realize; to appreciate
- roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea
- (bound form) remote; out of the way; off-center; eccentric
- everything
- right and wrong; quarrel