Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- Fujian and Guangdong
- trader; peddler
- inexpensive; lowly; despicable; (bound form) (humble) my
- see 崑山市|昆山市[Kun1 shan1 Shi4]
- magpie
- (literary) to make it so; to dictate
- (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high official; (literary) but; however; (literary) only; just
- 故城 Gù chéng: 故城 Gu4 cheng2: see 故城縣|故城县[Gu4 cheng2 Xian4]故城 gù chéng: 故城 gu4 cheng2: old city
- palace
- roof tile; abbr. for 瓦特[wa3 te4]
- weeds; brush (vegetation); wild grassland
- to inhabit a region (esp. ethnic group); to congregate
- alternately; repeatedly
- to gather up; to collect; to edit; to compile
- to give an earnest message of good wishes, encouragement, or advice etc; a message of this sort
- the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature); plebeian
- Chinese language
- Chinese written language; Chinese literature esp. as taught abroad
- a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical); scholar; skillful writer; fine talent
- to choose; to pick; to select; to elect
- cultural relic; historical relic; CL:件[jian4],個|个[ge4]
- descendant
- (bound form) to confer; to bestow; to grant; (literary) gift; favor; Taiwan pr. [si4]
- (of a vassal state, neighboring country etc) to present tribute (to the imperial court)
- 郑 Zhèng: 郑 Zheng4: Zheng, a Zhou-dynasty state in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng 新鄭|新郑[Xin1 zheng4], a county-level city in Henan; abbr. for Zhengzhou 鄭州|郑州[Zheng4 zhou1], the capital of Henan; surname Zheng郑 zhèng: 郑 zheng4: used in 鄭重|郑重[zheng4 zhong4]
- antiphon (i.e. solo voice answered by chorus); sung reply (in agreement with first voice); to reply with a poem in the same rhythm
- see 紫金縣|紫金县[Zi3 jin1 Xian4]
- 溥 pǔ: 溥 pu3: extensive; pervading溥 Pǔ: 溥 Pu3: surname Pu
- to guide; guidebook
- rain coat made of straw etc
- quotation (from a book or existing source)
- study of the Confucian classics
- Confucian study of ethics; study of Daoism; school for Daoism in Tang and Song times; Daoist magic; another name for 理學|理学, rational learning of Song dynasty neo-Confucianism
- to go out and come in; entrance and exit; expenditure and income; discrepancy; inconsistent
- barren; lean
- stony soil
- potato; yam
- elders