Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- different kind (sometimes with a connotation of strangeness or eccentricity)
- flower; earlobe; fig. item on both sides; classifier for flowers, clouds etc
- maid escorting bride to new home; concubine
- garden; orchard
- colors of autumn; autumn scenery
- 当年 dāng nián: 当年 dang1 nian2: in those days; back then; in those years; to be in the prime of life当年 dàng nián: 当年 dang4 nian2: that very same year
- beauty; disposition; looks; appearance
- to plate (with gold, silver etc); (prefix) -plated
- to stick; to paste; to post (e.g. on a blog); to keep close to; to fit snugly; to subsidize; allowance (e.g. money for food or housing); sticker; classifier for sticking plaster: strip
- lowering and raising of the head; (fig.) small move; pitch (position angle)
- to jump; to leap; to bound; to skip
- (bound form) (literary) to take liberties with sb or sth; to treat frivolously
- jubilation; great celebration; CL:片[pian4]
- near ancient history (often taken to mean Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing times)
- History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫[Liu2 Xu4] in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋[Hou4 Jin4] of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls
- music; CL:張|张[zhang1],曲[qu3],段[duan4]
- the five regions: the east, south, west, north and center; all parts; China and the lands beyond its frontiers
- Western Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms (400-421)
- artistry; talent; skill; (in ancient times) female entertainer
- mask
- (wool) sweater; CL:件[jian4]
- main beam of roof
- both ends (of a stick etc); two extremes
- termination; to finish; to end; to conclude; to close
- to jump; to leap
- to lift; to raise; to raise one's head; high; high spirits; soaring; expensive
- elegant; graceful; smart; to dance lightly
- who; which; what
- to tread on; to trample; to stamp; to fulfill; Taiwan pr. [dao4]
- square cun (Chinese unit of area: 1 cun × 1 cun, or 3⅓ cm × 3⅓ cm); heart; mind
- skill
- to pick up and drop off; to ferry back and forth