Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- 商 Shāng: 商 Shang1: Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC); surname Shang商 shāng: 商 shang1: commerce; merchant; dealer; to consult; 2nd note in pentatonic scale; quotient (as in 智商[zhi4 shang1], intelligence quotient)
- brief; sketchy; outline; summary; to omit; (bound form before a single-character verb) a bit; somewhat; slightly; plan; strategy; to capture (territory)
- 山 Shān: 山 Shan1: surname Shan山 shān: 山 shan1: mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]); (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
- 家 jiā: 家 jia1: used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]家 jiā: 家 jia1: home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to move; to shift; to change; to alter; to remove
- 春 chūn: 春 chun1: spring (season); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life春 Chūn: 春 Chun1: surname Chun
- 槛 kǎn: 槛 kan3: door sill; threshold槛 jiàn: 槛 jian4: banister; balustrade; cage for animal or prisoner; to transport caged prisoner on a cart
- to live; alive; living; work; workmanship
- 屏 bǐng: 屏 bing3: to get rid of; to put aside; to reject; to keep control; to hold (one's breath)屏 píng: 屏 ping2: (standing) screen屏 bīng: 屏 bing1: used in 屏營|屏营[bing1 ying2]
- WeChat's "buy now, pay later" service
- order; sequence; one after another
- to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); (directional complement) away; off; carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2]; abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format
- fist; boxing
- 石 shí: 石 shi2: rock; stone; stone inscription; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]石 Shí: 石 Shi2: surname Shi; abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1], the capital of Hebei石 dàn: 石 dan4: dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗[dou3]; one hundred liters; ancient pr. [shi2]
- partner; companion; comrade; associate; to accompany
- 金 jīn: 金 jin1: gold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals; money; golden; highly respected; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]金 Jīn: 金 Jin1: surname Jin; surname Kim (Korean); Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
- large earthenware wine jar
- (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])
- trifling; trivial; tedious; inconsequential
- Banqiao or Panchiao city in Taiwan
- 张 Zhāng: 张 Zhang1: surname Zhang张 zhāng: 张 zhang1: to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes
- chief; head; outstanding; exceptional; stalwart
- first thing in the morning; at daybreak
- lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom); fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of life
- 难 nàn: 难 nan4: disaster; distress; to scold难 nán: 难 nan2: difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good
- 水 Shǔi: 水 Shui3: surname Shui; Shui ethnic group水 shǔi: 水 shui3: water; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4 shui3] and 水性[shui3 xing4]); (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy; (bound form) additional cost; extra income; classifier for washings of a garment
- 巫山 Wū Shān: 巫山 Wu1 Shan1: Mt Wu on the Changjiang River (Yangtze) by the Three Gorges巫山 Wū shān: 巫山 Wu1 shan1: see 巫山縣|巫山县[Wu1 shan1 Xian4]
- 不是 bù shi: 不是 bu4 shi5: fault; blame不是 bù shì: 不是 bu4 shi4: no; is not; not
- to guard; to defend; to keep watch; to abide by the law; to observe (rules or ritual); nearby; adjoining
- day; sky; heaven
- the human world; the earth
- mandarin duck
- (official) document; dispatch
- 只 zhǐ: 只 zhi3: only; merely; just只 zhī: 只 zhi1: grain that has begun to ripen只 zhī: 只 zhi1: classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
- 须 xū: 须 xu1: must; to have to; to wait须 xū: 须 xu1: beard; mustache; feeler (of an insect etc); tassel
- to burn
- quarrel; dispute; a blood sacrifice (arch.)
- to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
- theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute; severe
- pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on
- 幕 mù: 幕 mu4: curtain or screen; canopy or tent; headquarters of a general; act (of a play)幕 mù: 幕 mu4: curtain; screen
- to fly
- 燕 Yān: 燕 Yan1: Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei; the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409–436); surname Yan燕 yàn: 燕 yan4: swallow (family Hirundinidae)