Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- 圈 quān: 圈 quan1: circle; ring; loop; (fig.) social circle; niche group; community; fandom; classifier for loops, orbits, laps; to surround; to encircle; to circle (sth); to mark with a circle圈 juān: 圈 juan1: to confine; to lock up; to pen in圈 juàn: 圈 juan4: livestock enclosure; pen; fold; sty
- 头 tóu: 头 tou2: head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading; classifier for pigs or livestock; CL:個|个[ge4]头 tou: 头 tou5: suffix for nouns
- rustic; village; countryside
- contempt; contemptuous; to despise; to scorn; scornful
- to look down upon; to despise
- to admire; to praise; to appreciate
- 崔 cūi: 崔 cui1: (literary) (of mountains) lofty崔 Cūi: 崔 Cui1: surname Cui
- treasure; hard metal
- to give as a present; to repel; to bestow an honorary title after death (old)
- face; CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]
- pupil (of the eye); eye
- lit. countenance of a flower, face like the moon (idiom); fig. (of a woman) beautiful
- to separate; to part
- to leave (on a long journey); to part from sb
- the sleeve of a garment
- poor; poverty-stricken; impoverished
- sour; tart; sick at heart; grieved; sore; aching; pedantic; impractical; to make sarcastic remarks about sb; an acid
- scholar; intellectual; egghead
- to drink wine
- to add to the fun; to liven things up
- to find amusement; to amuse oneself
- 把 bà: 把 ba4: handle把 bǎ: 把 ba3: to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb})
- melon seed; seeds of pumpkin, watermelon or sunflower etc, roasted and flavored, consumed as a snack
- lotus seed
- black and white; right and wrong; monochrome
- chess piece; CL:個|个[ge4],顆|颗[ke1]; (fig.) a pawn (used by others for their own purposes)
- chest; heart; mind
- other people; others; other person
- to guess
- 单 dān: 单 dan1: bill; list; form; single; only; sole; odd number; CL:個|个[ge4]单 chán: 单 chan2: used in 單于|单于[chan2 yu2]单 Shàn: 单 Shan4: surname Shan
- amount; number
- to guess correctly; to figure out the right answer
- 纳 Nà: 纳 Na4: surname Na纳 nà: 纳 na4: to receive; to accept; to enjoy; to bring into; to pay (tax etc); nano- (one billionth); to reinforce sole of shoes or stockings by close sewing
- (literary) to offer food and drinks; to entertain
- to offer sacrifices to the gods or ancestors
- 羊 Yáng: 羊 Yang2: surname Yang羊 yáng: 羊 yang2: sheep; goat; CL:頭|头[tou2],隻|只[zhi1]
- hog; pig; swine; CL:口[kou3],頭|头[tou2]
- rich; sumptuous
- food and drink; food to accompany wine
- social climbing; to claim connections with people in higher social class
- to surround; to circle; to revolve around
- fisherman; to fish
- to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China); to banish or exile; (of immortals) to banish from Heaven; to censure; to blame
- late Ming and early Qing; around the middle of the 17th century