Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- dramatist; playwright
- a drama; a play; theater; script of a play
- theorist; theoretician
- 曲 Qū: 曲 Qu1: surname Qu曲 qū: 曲 qu1: bent; crooked; wrong曲 qǔ: 曲 qu3: tune; song; CL:支[zhi1]曲 qū: 曲 qu1: fermentation starter; leaven (molds, yeasts or bacteria used in fermenting soy products or brewing etc); Taiwan pr. [qu2]
- to talk about; to narrate; to give an account
- letter; note-paper
- 曹 Cáo: 曹 Cao2: surname Cao; Zhou Dynasty vassal state曹 cáo: 曹 cao2: class or grade; generation; plaintiff and defendant (old); government department (old)
- to experience; to go through
- twists and turns
- legendary; fantasy saga; romance; short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
- 故事 gù shi: 故事 gu4 shi5: narrative; story; tale故事 gù shì: 故事 gu4 shi4: old practice
- fine time, beautiful scenery (idiom); everything lovely
- to recollect; to remember; memory
- child; childish
- lit. seeing clearly the downy feathers of autumn (idiom, from Mencius); fig. perceptive of even the finest detail
- to observe carefully
- vein lines (in marble or fingerprint); grain (in wood etc)
- 夏 Xià: 夏 Xia4: the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC; Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407–432); surname Xia夏 xià: 夏 xia4: summer
- mosquito
- 雷 léi: 雷 lei2: thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)雷 Léi: 雷 Lei2: surname Lei
- to write in the style of some author; to write as if from the mouth of sb; a pastiche
- group; crowd; flock, herd, pack etc
- 空 kōng: 空 kong1: empty; air; sky; in vain空 kòng: 空 kong4: to empty; vacant; unoccupied; space; leisure; free time
- 百 bǎi: 百 bai3: hundred; numerous; all kinds of百 Bǎi: 百 Bai3: surname Bai
- head high; in high spirits; to raise one's head (e.g. of neighing horse)
- 项 xiàng: 项 xiang4: back of neck; item; thing; term (in a mathematical formula); sum (of money); classifier for principles, items, clauses, tasks, research projects etc项 Xiàng: 项 Xiang4: surname Xiang
- 喷 pēn: 喷 pen1: to spout; to spurt; to spray; to puff; (slang) to criticize scathingly (esp. online)喷 pèn: 喷 pen4: (of a smell) strong; peak season (of a crop); (classifier for the ordinal number of a crop, in the context of multiple harvests)
- to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- 冲 chōng: 冲 chong1: (of water) to dash against; to mix with water; to infuse; to rinse; to flush; to develop (a film); to rise in the air; to clash; to collide with冲 chōng: 冲 chong1: thoroughfare; to go straight ahead; to rush; to clash冲 chòng: 冲 chong4: powerful; vigorous; pungent; towards; in view of
- clear sky; fig. high official position; noble
- (bird species of China) Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus)
- high in the clouds; (computing) the cloud
- happy; joyful
- concave or convex; bumps and holes; uneven (surface); rugged
- flower bed; flower terrace; flower stand
- underbrush
- (of disparate elements) to mix in with one another; (of diverse groups of people) to live in the same area; to coexist
- 蹲 cún: 蹲 cun2: (dialect) to sprain one's foot or leg due to a sudden impact or landing蹲 dūn: 蹲 dun1: to crouch; to squat; to stay (somewhere)
- 齐 qí: 齐 qi2: neat; even; level with; identical; simultaneous; all together; to even sth out齐 Qí: 齐 Qi2: (name of states and dynasties at several different periods); surname Qi
- to compose oneself; to concentrate one's attention