Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- 柏 Bǎi: 柏 Bai3: surname Bai; Taiwan pr. [Bo2]柏 bǎi: 柏 bai3: cedar; cypress; Taiwan pr. [bo2]柏 bó: 柏 bo2: (used for transcribing names)柏 bò: 柏 bo4: used in 黃柏|黄柏[huang2 bo4]; Taiwan pr. [bo2]
- upright; erect; to straighten up (one's back etc); to hold erect
- bald head
- 扁 Piān: 扁 Pian1: surname Pian扁 piān: 扁 pian1: (bound form) small扁 biǎn: 扁 bian3: flat; (coll.) to beat (sb) up
- rotten
- spiral shell; snail; conch
- branch; limb (of a tree)
- before; formerly; previous; ago
- used in 幞頭|幞头[fu2 tou2]; Taiwan pr. [pu2]
- on the way
- to burn incense at a temple
- room; universe
- 咳 ké: 咳 ke2: cough咳 hāi: 咳 hai1: sound of sighing; (interjection expressing surprise, sorrow, regret, disappointment etc) oh; damn; wow
- to go upstream; to trace the source
- short name for Anhui 安徽[An1 hui1]
- foot of a hill
- faithful official
- to face sth; to be confronted with
- see 南湖區|南湖区[Nan2 hu2 Qu1]
- see 潛山市|潜山市[Qian2 shan1 Shi4]
- mountain ridge
- friend
- surname Cai
- 东西 dōng xī: 东西 dong1 xi1: east and west东西 dōng xi: 东西 dong1 xi5: thing; stuff; person; CL:個|个[ge4],件[jian4]
- to be limited to; to be confined to
- courtyard
- upstairs; (Internet slang) previous poster in a forum thread
- to overlap; to superimpose; to telescope; to run together; to duplicate; one over another; superposition; an overlap; redundancy; reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步[san4 san4 bu4] to have a stroll)
- a leak (e.g. of chemicals)
- (usu. of a structural component of a building) to bear a load; load-bearing (wall, pillar etc)
- to imitate
- the West (Europe and North America); countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional)
- to face; to confront
- strange; rare; bizarre
- see 武昌區|武昌区[Wu3 chang1 Qu1]
- Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985; favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes; Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢[Cui1 Hao4], with theme 'the past will never return'; one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼[Yue4 yang2 Lou2] in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁[Teng2 wang2 Ge2] in Nanchang, Jiangxi