Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- 鹄 gǔ: 鹄 gu3: center or bull's eye of an archery target (old); goal; target鹄 hú: 鹄 hu2: swan
- 蛇 shé: 蛇 she2: snake; serpent; CL:條|条[tiao2]蛇 yí: 蛇 yi2: used in 委蛇[wei1 yi2]
- high and steep
- 峙 shì: 峙 shi4: used in 繁峙[Fan2 shi4] (the name of a place in Shanxi)峙 zhì: 峙 zhi4: (literary) to tower aloft
- Han River
- see 漢陽區|汉阳区[Han4 yang2 Qu1]
- (bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc); to broadcast (radio signals etc); Taiwan pr. [bo4]
- fame and profit
- to remember; to recall; memory
- to pour liquid; to irrigate (using waterwheel); to water; to cast (molten metal); to mold
- flute
- May; fifth month (of the lunar year)
- see 黃州區|黄州区[Huang2 zhou1 Qu1]
- Red Cliffs, historic battlefield in Huangzhou District 黃州區|黄州区[Huang2 zhou1 Qu1], Huanggang 黃岡市|黄冈市[Huang2 gang1 Shi4], Hubei, site of the Battle of Red Cliffs in 208 AD; see 赤壁市[Chi4 bi4 Shi4]
- capital of 府 prefecture (from Tang to Qing times); prefectural seat
- see 漢川市|汉川市[Han4 chuan1 Shi4]
- sharply; distinctly; radically
- 魏 Wèi: 魏 Wei4: surname Wei; name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States; Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1], one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty; the Wei dynasty 221–265; Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history魏 wèi: 魏 wei4: tower over a palace gateway (old)
- in a state of war
- Zoysia pungens
- (reception) hall; living room; office; provincial government department
- wisteria
- red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle); CL:棵[ke1]
- open space; open field
- to collapse; to topple; to capsize
- (literary) money for a journey; travel expenses
- gongs and drums; Chinese percussion instruments
- nightly
- tour guide; guidebook; to conduct a tour
- see 曲江區|曲江区[Qu3 jiang1 Qu1]