Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- anxiety; distress
- 慨 kǎi: 慨 kai3: to sigh (with emotion)慨 kǎi: 慨 kai3: indignant; generous; to sigh (with emotion)
- to relinquish; to abandon; to contribute; to donate; (bound form) tax; levy
- extremely; exceedingly
- to move up and down; to undulate; ups and downs
- 仲 Zhòng: 仲 Zhong4: surname Zhong仲 zhòng: 仲 zhong4: second month of a season; middle; intermediate; second amongst brothers
- guest-house; inn
- whereabouts; (lose) track (of)
- companion; mate; partner
- bronze (alloy of copper 銅|铜 and tin 錫|锡[xi1])
- to stroll; to saunter
- in the past; formerly
- to cleanse; to boil
- double-edged sword; CL:口[kou3],把[ba3]; classifier for blows of a sword
- optimum; optimal; peak; best (athlete, movie etc)
- two-character surname Ximen
- to tower; to stand straight (of person's bearing)
- horizontal stripe; striation
- unit of length used in ancient times, equal to 7 or 8 Chinese feet 尺[chi3]
- to tilt one's head back to see (sth); to look up at
- cave dwelling; legendary abode of immortals
- ape
- to climb (by pulling oneself up); to implicate; to claim connections of higher status
- (coll.) every day
- to bend one's head
- 蔓 màn: 蔓 man4: creeper; to spread蔓 mán: 蔓 man2: used in 蔓菁[man2 jing5]
- 壮 Zhuàng: 壮 Zhuang4: Zhuang ethnic group, the largest ethnic minority in China壮 zhuàng: 壮 zhuang4: to strengthen; strong; robust
- thirsty
- ocher (pigment)
- (literary) to leave home to pursue studies in (a distant place)
- to investigate; to survey; to collate
- 河口 hé kǒu: 河口 he2 kou3: estuary; the mouth of a river河口 Hé kǒu: 河口 He2 kou3: see 河口區|河口区[He2 kou3 Qu1]; see 河口瑤族自治縣|河口瑶族自治县[He2 kou3 Yao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
- 涨 zhǎng: 涨 zhang3: to rise (of prices, rivers)涨 zhàng: 涨 zhang4: to swell; to distend