Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- wine shop; pub (public house); hotel; restaurant; (Tw) hostess club
- to agree; to consent; to be willing to
- to go (to visit a superior); one's current attainment in learning or art
- brothers; younger brother; CL:個|个[ge4]; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal
- 昆 kūn: 昆 kun1: used in place names, notably Kunlun Mountains 崑崙|昆仑[Kun1 lun2]; (also used for transliteration)昆 kūn: 昆 kun1: descendant; elder brother; a style of Chinese poetry
- 季 Jì: 季 Ji4: surname Ji季 jì: 季 ji4: season; the last month of a season; fourth or youngest amongst brothers; classifier for seasonal crop yields
- official institution; state bureau
- to handle official business (usu. in an office); to do (office) work
- location; place
- rhyming couplet; pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway; CL:副[fu4],幅[fu2]
- insect; CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2],堆[dui1]
- form; shape
- to add; to attach; to be close to; to be attached
- copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China)
- miscellany of writing from the Western Han (aka Former Han)
- 还 Huán: 还 Huan2: surname Huan还 hái: 还 hai2: still; still in progress; still more; yet; even more; in addition; fairly; passably (good); as early as; even; also; else还 huán: 还 huan2: to pay back; to return
- to give birth to a child or children
- to separate
- mother and child; parent and subsidiary (companies); principal and interest
- 血 xuè: 血 xue4: blood; colloquial pr. [xie3]; CL:滴[di1],片[pian4]血 xiě: 血 xie3: see 血[xue4]
- 涂 tú: 涂 tu2: to apply (paint etc); to smear; to daub; to blot out; to scribble; to scrawl; (literary) mud; street涂 Tú: 涂 Tu2: surname Tu
- as the time draws near; at the last moment; temporary; interim; ad hoc
- to send (on a mission); to dispatch
- rectangle
- official seal
- preliminary round of imperial examinations; abbr. for 科學考察|科学考察[ke1 xue2 kao3 cha2], scientific exploration
- child; the younger generation
- to participate; to take part; to join
- the triennial provincial imperial exam during the Ming and Qing
- 字号 zì hào: 字号 zi4 hao4: characters and numbers (as used in a code); alphanumeric code; serial number字号 zì hao: 字号 zi4 hao5: character size; font size; fame; reputation; shop; name of a shop
- to take an exam; exam; CL:次[ci4]
- number of people
- number; amount
- fixed amount; quota
- examination paper; test paper; CL:份[fen4],張|张[zhang1]
- treatment; pay; salary; status; rank
- special; particular; unusual; extraordinary
- portrait; to do a portrait of sb
- to look up and see no-one familiar (idiom); not having anyone to rely on; without a friend in the world