Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- to wash; to rinse; any of three 10-day division of the month (during Tang dynasty); Taiwan pr. [huan3]; also pr. [wan3]
- my (polite); poor; ruined; shabby; worn out; defeated
- (literary) not to speak
- Japan (old); East Asian countries
- printed cloth; calico
- short name for Fujian 福建[Fu2 jian4]; also pr. [Min2]
- vegetation; plants
- one by one; one after another
- to investigate
- Aztec or African marigold (Tagetes erecta)
- 禅 shàn: 禅 shan4: to abdicate禅 chán: 禅 chan2: dhyana (Sanskrit); Zen; meditation (Buddhism)
- similar in shape and appearance
- palm tree
- cover; cap; topping; head covering; veil
- player
- palm; palm fiber; coir (coconut fiber); brown
- pineapple
- to bloom; to blossom; to flower; (fig.) to burst; to split open; (fig.) to burst with joy; (fig.) to spring up everywhere; to flourish
- jackfruit; breadfruit; Artocarpus heterophyllus
- 呢 ní: 呢 ni2: dense wool fabric (used for coats and jackets)呢 ne: 呢 ne5: (sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?"); (sentence-final particle) indicating that a state or situation still holds; (discourse particle) used to mark a slight pause or emphasis in speech
- bamboo; CL:棵[ke1],根[gen1]
- 累累 lěi lěi: 累累 lei3 lei3: again and again; innumerable; repeated; riddled with; accumulated累累 léi léi: 累累 lei2 lei2: (literary) (of fruit, achievements etc) clusters of; piles of; heaps of; (literary) gaunt; haggard; wretched; Taiwan pr. [lei3 lei3]
- Anaphalis yedoensis (pearly everlasting reed); used in Japanese names with phonetic value Ogi
- (small) bell; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- 铎 Dúo: 铎 Duo2: surname Duo铎 dúo: 铎 duo2: large ancient bell
- 晕 yùn: 晕 yun4: dizzy; halo; ring around moon or sun晕 yūn: 晕 yun1: confused; dizzy; giddy; to faint; to swoon; to lose consciousness; to pass out
- 檀 tán: 檀 tan2: sandalwood; hardwood; purple-red檀 Tán: 檀 Tan2: surname Tan
- 桑 Sāng: 桑 Sang1: surname Sang桑 sāng: 桑 sang1: (bound form) mulberry tree
- white; fig. reactionary; anti-communist
- (diplomatic) envoy
- (bound form) general; non-specific; extensive; pan-; to flood; (literary) to float about; to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc)
- a raft made of bamboo or wood; to fell trees; to hew
- weather
- the four seasons, namely: spring 春[chun1], summer 夏[xia4], autumn 秋[qiu1] and winter 冬[dong1]
- addicted to; fond of; stem corresponding to -phil or -phile