Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to not say a word (idiom)
- betel palm (Areca catechu); betel nut
- entrance; to import
- astringent; tart; acerbity; unsmooth; rough (surface); hard to understand; obscure
- (bound form) to bear; to endure; to withstand
- lip
- equal; equally; equivalent
- pipa, Chinese lute, with 4 strings, a large pear-shaped body and a fretted fingerboard
- ecstasy; rapture; to feel overwhelming joy or sorrow
- barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless
- to be moved; to be tempted
- to arrange in order; to line up; to exclude; to eliminate; to repel; to expel; to discharge; (literary) to push aside; to force open; to rehearse; row; line; platoon; (bound form) steak; chop; (bound form) raft; classifier for rows or lines (of people or things)
- famous; noted; well-known; celebrated
- flower drum, a type of double-skinned Chinese drum; folk dance popular in provinces around the middle reaches of the Yangtze; (bicycle wheel) hub
- to lock; to lock up; a lock (CL:把[ba3])
- mutual respect in marriage; abbr. of idiom 舉案齊眉|举案齐眉[ju3 an4 qi2 mei2]
- bun (of hair)
- bun (of hair); topknot
- (bound form) skirt
- trouser leg
- interest (desire to know about sth); interest (thing in which one is interested); hobby
- surname Shao; place name
- widow
- father's oldest sister; husband's older sister; sister-in-law
- cosmetics
- long skirt; full-length skirt
- to merge with; interlinking; to join with; to interlock
- 恒 héng: 恒 heng2: permanent; constant; fixed; usual; ordinary; rule (old); one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (䷟)恒 Héng: 恒 Heng2: surname Heng
- host
- kind; type; class; category; (classifier) kind; type; (bound form) to resemble; to be similar to
- (of an object) tapered; (of a voice) high-pitched
- midstream
- to control onself; to exercise self-restraint; self-sustaining
- key; also pr. [yao4]
- coastal border region