Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- to find out; to ascertain; to get an idea of
- to feel wronged; to feel aggrieved; (in set phrases such as 委曲求全[wei3 qu1 qiu2 quan2]) to yield; to make concessions; (literary) winding; tortuous; indirect; (literary) detailed; elaborate
- graceful; tactful
- 宁 zhù: 宁 zhu4: to store; to stand; space between the door and the entrance screen宁 nìng: 宁 ning4: would rather; to prefer; how (emphatic); Taiwan pr. [ning2]宁 Níng: 宁 Ning2: abbr. for Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区[Ning2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 qu1]; abbr. for Nanjing 南京[Nan2 jing1]; surname Ning宁 níng: 宁 ning2: peaceful; to pacify; to visit (one's parents etc)
- to lose favor; to become estranged
- confession; to make clear one's position or intentions; to brag
- forty-seventh year G11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1970 or 2030
- see 邗江區|邗江区[Han2 jiang1 Qu1]
- colleague; co-worker
- to trust; to believe in
- (bound form) one's family, esp. wife and children; (literary) to regard with love and affection; to feel concern for
- to serve in the army; in active service
- lifetime; generation; group of people; class; classifier for generations; (literary) classifier for people
- hometown; native place; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (bound form) ordinary; numerous; (bound form) pertaining to a concubine (contrasted with 嫡[di2])
- speech sounds; pronunciation; colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character; phonetic; audio; voice; (Internet) to voice chat; voice message
- to conform to; to fit with; to be compatible with
- to pass on (stories); to relate
- 姚 yáo: 姚 yao2: handsome; good-looking姚 Yáo: 姚 Yao2: surname Yao
- to amuse oneself; to have fun
- office; bureau; (Taiwan pr. [shu4]) to sign; to arrange
- idea; opinion; suggestion; objection; complaint; CL:點|点[dian3],條|条[tiao2]
- forty-ninth year I1 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1972 or 2032
- prefecture; (old) province; (old) administrative division; state (e.g. of US); oblast (Russia); canton (Switzerland)
- to borrow or lend money; debit and credit items on a balance sheet
- to act as surety for sb; to be sb's guarantor; to stand bail for sb
- to demand payment; to extort; to trace; to seek; to pursue; to explore
- to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; classifier for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges)
- 尾 wěi: 尾 wei3: tail; remainder; remnant; extremity; sixth of the 28 constellations; classifier for fish尾 yǐ: 尾 yi3: horse's tail; pointed posterior section of a locust etc
- father and son
- to plan; to intend; to calculate; plan; intention; calculation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to tear open; to tear down; to tear apart; to open
- (honorific) your mother
- old man or woman; the elderly; one's aged parents or grandparents
- 姬 jī: 姬 ji1: woman; concubine; female entertainer (archaic)姬 Jī: 姬 Ji1: surname Ji; family name of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty 周代[Zhou1 dai4] (1046–256 BC)
- to recover (from illness)
- to enjoin; to implore; to urge
- to be in season; seasonal
- to avoid responsibility; to shift the responsibility onto others; (Tw) to relieve sb of their responsibilities (e.g. upon retirement)
- (bound form) to put in order; to arrange properly; circumspect; well-behaved; to give (sb) an order
- to borrow money
- to slander; to defame; to misrepresent; to speak maliciously
- to slander; to defame; to speak ill of
- husband's younger brother; brother-in-law
- absurd; irrational