Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- dealings; contacts; to go back and forth
- to cut short; extinct; to disappear; to vanish; absolutely; by no means
- to host a banquet; guest at a banquet
- to make a report (to a superior); to give; to endow; to receive; petition
- life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc
- to carry; to take along; to bring along; to hold (hands); also pr. [xi1]
- to spend the summer; to take a summer vacation
- heat; hot weather; summer heat
- to embroider; embroidery
- subject; course; CL:門|门[men2]; class; lesson; CL:堂[tang2],節|节[jie2]; to levy; tax; form of divination
- 古 gǔ: 古 gu3: ancient; old; paleo-古 Gǔ: 古 Gu3: surname Gu
- (bound form) article; commodity; product; goods; (bound form) grade; rank; kind; type; variety; character; disposition; nature; temperament; to taste sth; to sample; to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up; fret (on a guitar or lute)
- to discuss; to comment; to criticize; to judge; to choose (by public appraisal)
- 花 Huā: 花 Hua1: surname Hua花 huā: 花 hua1: flower; blossom; CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4]; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful花 huā: 花 hua1: flower; blossom; also pr. [wei3]
- bad; ill; not good at; not to be pooh-poohed; quite impressive
- 饮 yǐn: 饮 yin3: to drink饮 yìn: 饮 yin4: to give (animals) water to drink
- 强 Qiáng: 强 Qiang2: surname Qiang强 qiǎng: 强 qiang3: to force; to compel; to strive; to make an effort强 qiáng: 强 qiang2: strong; powerful; better; slightly more than; vigorous; violent; best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强[bai3 qiang2]强 jiàng: 强 jiang4: stubborn; unyielding
- 教 jiào: 教 jiao4: (bound form) to teach; to instruct; a religion; to cause (sb to do sth); to tell (sb to do sth)教 Jiào: 教 Jiao4: surname Jiao教 jiāo: 教 jiao1: to teach; to instruct
- to shoot; to launch; to allude to; radio- (chemistry)
- to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- the human world; the earth
- excessively; too
- each; every
- old language; the Classics; Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose; Classical Chinese as a school subject
- 宗 zōng: 宗 zong1: school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs宗 Zōng: 宗 Zong1: surname Zong
- 何为 hé wéi: 何为 he2 wei2: what is; (old) what for; (in a rhetorical question) it's no use何为 hé wèi: 何为 he2 wei4: (old) why
- a national policy
- South China; see 南華縣|南华县[Nan2 hua2 Xian4]
- quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin
- 匡 Kuāng: 匡 Kuang1: surname Kuang匡 kuāng: 匡 kuang1: (literary) to rectify; (literary) to assist; (coll.) to calculate roughly; to estimate
- to weigh; weight; measure
- 刘 líu: 刘 liu2: (classical) a type of battle-ax; to kill; to slaughter刘 Líu: 刘 Liu2: surname Liu
- elegant
- healthy; to invigorate; to strengthen; to be good at; to be strong in
- 史 shǐ: 史 shi3: history; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China史 Shǐ: 史 Shi3: surname Shi
- to move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc); to promote
- Ban Gu (32-92), Eastern Han dynasty historian, wrote the Dynastic History of Western Han 漢書|汉书
- broad; extensive
- see 昌黎縣|昌黎县[Chang1 li2 Xian4]
- muddy; turbid; brainless; foolish; (bound form) simple; natural; (bound form) whole; entire; all over
- see 柳州市[Liu3 zhou1 Shi4]
- high and steep; precipitous; severe or stern
- 宕 dàng: 宕 dang4: dissipated; put off宕 tàn: 宕 tan4: used in 宕昌[Tan4 chang1] (the name of a place in Gansu)
- 苏 sū: 苏 su1: used in 嚕囌|噜苏[lu1 su1]苏 sū: 苏 su1: to revive苏 sū: 苏 su1: Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil); place name; to revive; used as phonetic in transliteration苏 Sū: 苏 Su1: surname Su; abbr. for Soviet Union 蘇維埃|苏维埃[Su1 wei2 ai1] or 蘇聯|苏联[Su1 lian2]; abbr. for Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏[Jiang1 su1]; abbr. for Suzhou 蘇州|苏州[Su1 zhou1]
- to dispute; to debate; to argue; to discuss
- (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])