Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to be adept in; to excel at
- 东西 dōng xī: 东西 dong1 xi1: east and west东西 dōng xi: 东西 dong1 xi5: thing; stuff; person; CL:個|个[ge4],件[jian4]
- to be limited to; to be confined to
- courtyard
- upstairs; (Internet slang) previous poster in a forum thread
- to overlap; to superimpose; to telescope; to run together; to duplicate; one over another; superposition; an overlap; redundancy; reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步[san4 san4 bu4] to have a stroll)
- a leak (e.g. of chemicals)
- (usu. of a structural component of a building) to bear a load; load-bearing (wall, pillar etc)
- to imitate
- the West (Europe and North America); countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional)
- to face; to confront
- strange; rare; bizarre
- see 武昌區|武昌区[Wu3 chang1 Qu1]
- Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985; favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes; Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢[Cui1 Hao4], with theme 'the past will never return'; one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼[Yue4 yang2 Lou2] in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁[Teng2 wang2 Ge2] in Nanchang, Jiangxi
- 鹄 gǔ: 鹄 gu3: center or bull's eye of an archery target (old); goal; target鹄 hú: 鹄 hu2: swan
- 蛇 shé: 蛇 she2: snake; serpent; CL:條|条[tiao2]蛇 yí: 蛇 yi2: used in 委蛇[wei1 yi2]
- high and steep
- 峙 zhì: 峙 zhi4: (literary) to tower aloft峙 shì: 峙 shi4: used in 繁峙[Fan2 shi4] (the name of a place in Shanxi)
- Han River
- see 漢陽區|汉阳区[Han4 yang2 Qu1]
- (bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc); to broadcast (radio signals etc); Taiwan pr. [bo4]
- fame and profit
- to remember; to recall; memory
- to pour liquid; to irrigate (using waterwheel); to water; to cast (molten metal); to mold
- continent; island in a river
- flute
- May; fifth month (of the lunar year)
- see 黃州區|黄州区[Huang2 zhou1 Qu1]
- Red Cliffs, historic battlefield in Huangzhou District 黃州區|黄州区[Huang2 zhou1 Qu1], Huanggang 黃岡市|黄冈市[Huang2 gang1 Shi4], Hubei, site of the Battle of Red Cliffs in 208 AD; see 赤壁市[Chi4 bi4 Shi4]
- capital of 府 prefecture (from Tang to Qing times); prefectural seat
- see 漢川市|汉川市[Han4 chuan1 Shi4]
- sharply; distinctly; radically
- 魏 Wèi: 魏 Wei4: surname Wei; name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States; Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1], one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty; the Wei dynasty 221–265; Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history魏 wèi: 魏 wei4: tower over a palace gateway (old)