Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- to be just like
- paternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old); nun; for the time being (literary)
- fairy
- to be in a sorry state; to be utterly defeated
- 亚 Yà: 亚 Ya4: Asia; Asian; Taiwan pr. [Ya3]亚 yà: 亚 ya4: second; next to; inferior; sub-; Taiwan pr. [ya3]
- selfishness; selfish motives
- 浅 jiān: 浅 jian1: sound of moving water浅 qiǎn: 浅 qian3: shallow; light (color)
- unexpectedly; to one's surprise
- 启蒙 qǐ méng: 启蒙 qi3 meng2: to instruct the young启蒙 qǐ méng: 启蒙 qi3 meng2: to instruct the young; to initiate; to awake sb from ignorance; to free sb from prejudice or superstition; primer; enlightened; the Enlightenment; Western learning from the late Qing dynasty
- to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~
- (literary) what is?; what is the meaning of?
- (exclamatory or interrogative particle)
- 适 kùo: 适 kuo4: see 李适[Li3 Kuo4]适 Shì: 适 Shi4: surname Shi适 shì: 适 shi4: to fit; suitable; proper; just (now); comfortable; well; to go; to follow or pursue
- (literary) (similar to 多麼|多么[duo1 me5], used before an adjective in exclamations) how (fortunate etc); so (many etc)
- related; brought together by fate
- in the future; future; the future; CL:個|个[ge4]
- wrongly written or mispronounced character
- surname Wu; area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai; name of states in southern China at different historical periods
- sound; noise; note (of musical scale); tone; news; syllable; reading (phonetic value of a character)
- mispronounced or wrongly written character
- to laugh heartily; a belly laugh
- poetic essay; taxation; to bestow on; to endow with
- (literary) to choose between rejecting and accepting
- Songs of Chu, an anthology of poetic songs, many from the state of Chu 楚[Chu3], collected in the Han dynasty 漢朝|汉朝[Han4 chao2]
- 祖 zǔ: 祖 zu3: ancestor; forefather; grandparents祖 Zǔ: 祖 Zu3: surname Zu
- to be puzzled; hard to understand; unintelligible; incomprehensible
- 汉 hàn: 汉 han4: man汉 Hàn: 汉 Han4: Han ethnic group; Chinese (language); the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
- 晋 jìn: 晋 jin4: to move forward; to promote; to advance晋 Jìn: 晋 Jin4: surname Jin; the Jin Dynasties (265–420); Western Jin 西晉|西晋[Xi1 Jin4] (265–316), Eastern Jin 東晉|东晋[Dong1 Jin4] (317–420) and Later Jin Dynasty (936–946); short name for Shanxi 山西[Shan1 xi1]
- 调 diào: 调 diao4: to transfer; to move (troops or cadres); to investigate; to enquire into; accent; view; argument; key (in music); mode (music); tune; tone; melody调 tiáo: 调 tiao2: to harmonize; to reconcile; to blend; to suit well; to adjust; to regulate; to season (food); to provoke; to incite
- to refine; to smelt
- 当日 dāng rì: 当日 dang1 ri4: on that day当日 dàng rì: 当日 dang4 ri4: that very day; the same day
- 文 wén: 文 wen2: language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67文 Wén: 文 Wen2: surname Wen
- guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] (a type of zither); musical instrument in general
- (classical particle similar to 於|于[yu2]) in; at; from; because; than; (classical final particle similar to 嗎|吗[ma5], 吧[ba5], 呢[ne5], expressing question, doubt or astonishment)
- 复 fù: 复 fu4: to go and return; to return; to resume; to return to a normal or original state; to repeat; again; to recover; to restore; to turn over; to reply; to answer; to reply to a letter; to retaliate; to carry out复 fù: 复 fu4: to repeat; to double; to overlap; complex (not simple); compound; composite; double; diplo-; duplicate; overlapping; to duplicate复 fù: 复 fu4: to reply to a letter
- nature; character; property; quality; attribute; sexuality; sex; gender; suffix forming adjective from verb; suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity; essence; CL:個|个[ge4]
- straightforward
- (idiom) unconventional; uninhibited; free-spirited
- literal-minded; pedantic; doctrinaire; longwinded; circuitous
- to capture; to restrain; to constrain; to adhere rigidly to; inflexible
- too polite; overcourteous
- accidental; image; pair; mate
- repeatedly (say something)