Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- cause; reason; karma; fate; predestined affinity; margin; hem; edge; along
- World Honored One; Revered One of the World (Buddha)
- (bound form) to feel remorse; (bound form) scripture read to atone for sb's sins (from Sanskrit "ksama")
- fault; transgression
- Buddhist allegorical word or gesture; subtleties of Buddhist doctrine
- to stand aloof; to be detached from; to transcend worldliness; untrammeled; unconventional
- to die
- to collapse; to fall into ruins; death of king or emperor; demise
- dukes or princes who rule a part of the country under the emperor; local rulers
- country; nation; state
- territory
- boundary
- in all parts of (a country); various regions
- wide; vast
- distant; faraway; remote
- to steer (a ship)
- back end of a ship; aft
- to circle; to wheel; to go around
- 隆 Lóng: 隆 Long2: surname Long; short for 吉隆坡[Ji2 long2 po1], Kuala Lumpur隆 lōng: 隆 long1: sound of drums隆 lóng: 隆 long2: grand; intense; prosperous; to swell; to bulge
- see 赤水市[Chi4 shui3 Shi4]
- Chinese opera
- learned; erudite
- especially; particularly
- folk musical theater
- to weigh anchor
- (of a ship) to set sail; (of an airplane) to take off
- (intentionally) mysterious; arcane
- Western Jin dynasty (265-316)
- compass
- the 12 earthly branches 子[zi3], 丑[chou3], 寅[yin2], 卯[mao3], 辰[chen2], 巳[si4], 午[wu3], 未[wei4], 申[shen1], 酉[you3], 戌[xu1], 亥[hai4], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
- the 10 heavenly stems 甲[jia3], 乙[yi3], 丙[bing3], 丁[ding1], 戊[wu4], 己[ji3], 庚[geng1], 辛[xin1], 壬[ren2], 癸[gui3], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
- the character 8 or 八; birthdate characters used in fortune-telling
- sequence; order
- circumference; circle
- direction; points of the compass; bearing; position; azimuth
- to form; to take shape
- neighbor; adjacent
- to stitch fabric; (medicine) to sew up a wound or incision
- to express; to articulate; to formulate