Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- nuptial wine cup
- drinking vessel; wine cup
- to observe a religious fast; to abstain from food or certain activities before a ritual
- (bound form) marriage; wedding; (bound form) to marry
- peach
- emperor; CL:個|个[ge4]
- empress; imperial consort
- 丧 sāng: 丧 sang1: mourning; funeral; (old) corpse丧 sàng: 丧 sang4: to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc); to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc); to die; disappointed; discouraged
- finger-guessing game
- (literary) to be routed (in a war); to suffer defeat (in sports etc)
- to play a drinking game
- midnight
- very early in the morning; in the wee hours
- left and right; nearby; approximately; attendant; to control; to influence
- the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
- Wang Shifu (fl. 1295-1307), author of Romance of the West Chamber 西廂記|西厢记
- Romance of the West Chamber by Wang Shifu 王實甫|王实甫[Wang2 Shi2 fu3]
- heartbeat; pulse
- violent; acute; severe; fierce
- early morning; also pr. [zao3chen5]
- sunshine; (of personality) upbeat; energetic; transparent (open to public scrutiny)
- previously; formerly; once upon a time
- 过去 gùo qù: 过去 guo4 qu4: (in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by过去 gùo qu: 过去 guo4 qu5: (verb suffix)
- see 浙江省[Zhe4 jiang1 Sheng3]
- see 紹興市|绍兴市[Shao4 xing1 Shi4]
- region; area
- to get one's name; named (after sth)
- seat of government; government repository (archive); official residence; mansion; presidential palace; (honorific) Your home; prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
- specifically; specially (for that purpose)
- 派 pā: 派 pa1: used in 派司[pa1 si5]派 pài: 派 pai4: (literary) tributary; branch of a river; clique; school; group; faction; (bound form) style; manner; to send (a person or resource); to dispatch; to allocate (a resource or task); to appoint (sb); classifier for factions, groups etc; (preceded by 一[yi1]) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc; (loanword) pi (Greek letter Π, π); the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159...; (loanword) pie
- to welcome; to greet
- see 杭州市[Hang2 zhou1 Shi4]
- old term; old way of referring to sth
- to be close to; to approach; to draw near
- 隐 yǐn: 隐 yin3: (bound form) secret; hidden; concealed; crypto-隐 yìn: 隐 yin4: to lean upon
- to write (by hand); to practice calligraphy
- to write an essay; composition (student essay); CL:篇[pian1]
- depressed; sulky; moody; unhappy
- officers and soldiers
- to be generally referred to (as); generic term
- to wash; to cleanse of evil
- tassel; sth shaped like a tassel (e.g. a leaf etc); ribbon