Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- to burn incense
- place; location; (after a noun) place where it is located
- 落 lào: 落 lao4: colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds落 là: 落 la4: to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind落 lùo: 落 luo4: to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out; to lower; to decline or sink; to lag or fall behind; to fall onto; to rest with; to get or receive; to write down; whereabouts; settlement
- (literary) not yet divined; (of outcomes) uncertain; unknowable
- 休 Xīu: 休 Xiu1: surname Xiu休 xīu: 休 xiu1: to rest; to stop doing sth for a period of time; to cease; (imperative) don't
- infatuation
- 颜 Yán: 颜 Yan2: surname Yan颜 yán: 颜 yan2: color; face; countenance
- 楼 lóu: 楼 lou2: house with more than 1 story; storied building; floor; CL:層|层[ceng2],座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4]楼 Lóu: 楼 Lou2: surname Lou
- visitor; guest; object (in grammar)
- 盖 Gě: 盖 Ge3: surname Ge盖 gài: 盖 gai4: lid; top; cover; canopy; to cover; to conceal; to build
- wall (CL:面[mian4],堵[du3]); (slang) to block (a website) (usu. in the passive: 被牆|被墙[bei4 qiang2])
- box (in theater); side room; side
- to collect books; library collection
- 废 fèi: 废 fei4: to abolish; to abandon; to abrogate; to discard; to depose; to oust; crippled; abandoned; waste废 fèi: 废 fei4: disabled
- desolate
- elephant; CL:隻|只[zhi1]; shape; form; appearance; to imitate
- scenery; landscape
- 切 qiè: 切 qie4: definitely; absolutely (not); (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut!; to grind; (bound form) close to; (bound form) eager; to correspond to; (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切[fan3 qie4] system should be applied to the previous two characters)切 qiē: 切 qie1: to cut; to slice; to carve; (math.) tangential
- (literary) old woman
- strip of high ground; low earth dyke separating fields
- 绕 rào: 绕 rao4: to wind; to coil (thread); to rotate around; to spiral; to move around; to go round (an obstacle); to by-pass; to make a detour; to confuse; to perplex绕 rào: 绕 rao4: to spiral; to move around; to go round (an obstacle); to by-pass; to make a detour
- vegetable field; vegetable bed
- to weave; to plait; to organize; to group; to arrange; to edit; to compile; to write; to compose; to fabricate; to make up
- a fence
- outside the door
- classifier for fields; unit of area equal to one fifteenth of a hectare
- 许 Xǔ: 许 Xu3: surname Xu许 xǔ: 许 xu3: to allow; to permit; to promise; to praise; somewhat; perhaps
- light; ray (CL:道[dao4]); bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
- mixed; jumbled
- 边 bian: 边 bian5: suffix of a noun of locality边 biān: 边 bian1: side; edge; margin; border; boundary; CL:個|个[ge4]; simultaneously
- 元 Yuán: 元 Yuan2: surname Yuan; Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)元 yuán: 元 yuan2: currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); (bound form) first; original; primary; (bound form) basic; fundamental; (bound form) constituent; part; (prefix) meta-; (math.) argument; variable; era (of a reign); (Tw) (geology) eon
- prince's mansion
- (bound form) base; foundation; (bound form) radical (chemistry); (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
- 数 shùo: 数 shuo4: (literary) frequently; repeatedly数 shǔ: 数 shu3: to count; to count as; to regard as; to enumerate; to list数 shù: 数 shu4: number; figure; several; a few
- 武 Wǔ: 武 Wu3: surname Wu武 wǔ: 武 wu3: martial; military
- rubble; debris
- to scale (a height); to ascend; to mount; to publish or record; to enter (e.g. in a register); to press down with the foot; to step or tread on; to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect); to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)
- to gaze into the distance
- 颇 Pō: 颇 Po1: surname Po; Taiwan pr. [Po3]颇 pō: 颇 po1: rather; quite; considerably; oblique; inclined; slanting; Taiwan pr. [po3]