Vocabulary: 沈秉钰|跋
from 浮生忆语集
- 尤x1 | Chapter Rank #331surname Yououtstanding; particularly, especially; a fault; to express discontentment against
- 尊x1 | Chapter Rank #332senior; of a senior generation; to honor; to respect; honorific; classifier for cannons and statues; ancient wine vessel
- 人x4 | Chapter Rank #52person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- 颐x5 | Chapter Rank #34(literary) chin; jaw; (literary) to foster; to nurture; to protect
- 道x5 | Chapter Rank #35road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization; (Daoism) the Way; the Dao; to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel); (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words); classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division)
- 当代x1 | Chapter Rank #333the present age; the contemporary era
- 龙门x1 | Chapter Rank #334see 龍門縣|龙门县[Long2 men2 Xian4]; see 龍門石窟|龙门石窟[Long2 men2 Shi2 ku1]; see 龍門山|龙门山[Long2 men2 Shan1]; Dragon Gate, mythical gate at the crest of a waterfall over which a carp may leap to become a dragon; (fig.) gateway to success or greatness
- 怜才x1 | Chapter Rank #335
- 下士x1 | Chapter Rank #336lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy)
- 清x2 | Chapter Rank #154Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China (1644–1911); surname Qing(of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts)
- 宦x1 | Chapter Rank #337imperial official; court eunuchsurname Huan
- 廿年x1 | Chapter Rank #338
- 尝x1 | Chapter Rank #339to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once
- 空x1 | Chapter Rank #340empty; air; sky; in vainto empty; vacant; unoccupied; space; leisure; free time
- 解衣x1 | Chapter Rank #341
- 囷x1 | Chapter Rank #342granary; Taiwan pr. [jun1]
- 赴义x1 | Chapter Rank #343
- 若x2 | Chapter Rank #155to seem; like; as; ifused in 般若[bo1 re3]; used in 蘭若|兰若[lan2 re3]
- 渴x1 | Chapter Rank #344thirsty
- 自己x1 | Chapter Rank #345oneself; (attributive) one's own
- 巳x1 | Chapter Rank #3466th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake; ancient Chinese compass point: 150°
- 冬x3 | Chapter Rank #85winter(onom.) beating a drum; rat-a-tatsurname Dong
- 因x3 | Chapter Rank #86cause; reason; because
- 娄x2 | Chapter Rank #156surname Lou; one of the 28 lunar mansions in Chinese astronomy
- 东x2 | Chapter Rank #157east; host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest); landlordsurname Dong
- 萧x5 | Chapter Rank #36(old) Chinese mugwort; (bound form) desolate; drearysurname Xiao
- 晋x2 | Chapter Rank #158to move forward; to promote; to advancesurname Jin; the Jin Dynasties (265–420); Western Jin 西晉|西晋[Xi1 Jin4] (265–316), Eastern Jin 東晉|东晋[Dong1 Jin4] (317–420) and Later Jin Dynasty (936–946); short name for Shanxi 山西[Shan1 xi1]
- 卿x2 | Chapter Rank #159high ranking official (old); term of endearment between spouses (old); (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old); honorific (old)
- 时x1 | Chapter Rank #347o'clock; time; when; hour; season; periodsurname Shi
- 方x1 | Chapter Rank #348square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic metersurname Fang
- 丈x17 | Chapter Rank #8measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m); to measure; husband; polite appellation for an older male
- 子x6 | Chapter Rank #25son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
- 山游x1 | Chapter Rank #349
- 明年x1 | Chapter Rank #350next year
- 死x2 | Chapter Rank #160to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
- 念x1 | Chapter Rank #351to read; to study (a subject); to attend (a school); to read aloud; to give (sb) a tongue-lashing (CL:頓|顿[dun4]); to miss (sb); idea; remembrance; twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿[nian4])
- 无x9 | Chapter Rank #16not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -lessused in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]
- 侧室x1 | Chapter Rank #352sideroom; concubine
- 未几x1 | Chapter Rank #353soon; before long
- 生x2 | Chapter Rank #161to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire); to live; to be alive; life; raw; uncooked; unprocessed; unfamiliar; strange; (bound form) student; person engaged in a field; (bound form) male role in traditional opera; (bound form) life; lifetime; (bound form) means of livelihood; (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]); (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- 女x1 | Chapter Rank #354female; woman; daughter
- 遽下x1 | Chapter Rank #355
- 遗腹x1 | Chapter Rank #356
- 生一子x1 | Chapter Rank #357
- 送死x1 | Chapter Rank #358to throw away one's life
- 养生x1 | Chapter Rank #359to maintain good health; to raise a child or animal; curing (of concrete etc)
- 力x2 | Chapter Rank #162surname Lipower; force; strength; ability; strenuously
- 肩x1 | Chapter Rank #360shoulder; to shoulder (responsibilities etc)
- 任x1 | Chapter Rank #361to assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)surname Ren
- 呱呱x1 | Chapter Rank #362(onom.) sound made by frogs, ducks etc(onom.) the crying of a baby