Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- horizontal beam; wooden crossbar; thwart
- (loanword) binding; to bind (e.g. an account to a mobile phone number)
- (so as) to avoid; to prevent; (just) in case
- sea breeze
- wooden pile; stake
- to comb one's hair
- (bound form) grandmother; (bound form) matron; (bound form) mother-in-law; (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
- to coil
- earpick; curette
- coat; jacket; short and lined coat or robe
- trousers
- to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on
- instep (upper surface of the foot)
- the waist and lower back; (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food); the waist of trousers or a skirt; (metonym) money pouch; pocket; (bound form) the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc)
- barefoot; barefooted
- the world of Chinese opera
- (literary) dawn; daybreak; dan, female role in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)
- to bow; personally
- to seize; to pull; to hold up the hem of clothes
- curtain; women's apartment; tent
- cabin; the hold of a ship or airplane
- low stool
- kang (a heatable brick bed); to bake; to dry by the heat of a fire
- stern of boat
- small craftsman (contemptuous); clatter (e.g. of footsteps); jumbled mass; press of bodies; tumult
- 傅 Fù: 傅 Fu4: surname Fu傅 fù: 傅 fu4: (bound form) instructor; (literary) to instruct; to attach; to apply (makeup etc)
- to apply (ointment, powder); to smear; to paint on
- fat; rouge (cosmetics); resin
- underpants; trousers; pants
- sock
- to embroider; to do embroidery
- to not say a word (idiom)
- betel palm (Areca catechu); betel nut
- entrance; to import
- astringent; tart; acerbity; unsmooth; rough (surface); hard to understand; obscure
- (bound form) to bear; to endure; to withstand
- lip
- 合 gě: 合 ge3: 100 ml; one-tenth of a peck; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗合 hé: 合 he2: to close; to join; to fit; to be equal to; whole; together; round (in battle); conjunction (astronomy); 1st note of pentatonic scale