Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- 12th earthly branch: 9-11 p.m., 10th solar month (7th November-6th December), year of the Boar; ancient Chinese compass point: 330°
- mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon); 4th earthly branch: 5–7 a.m., 2nd solar month (6th March–4th April), Year of the Rabbit; ancient Chinese compass point: 90° (east)
- Diaoyu Islands, located between Taiwan and Okinawa, controlled by Japan – which calls them the Senkaku Islands – but claimed by China
- pen rack; pen-holder
- (of a vehicle, horse etc) to go fast; to speed; (of a vehicle) to run; to go; (of a boat) to sail
- countless; numberless; innumerable
- to smash to pieces; to shatter
- to come and go; to roam about (mostly unseen); (of a ghost) to haunt (a place); (of a criminal) to stalk (the streets); (of the sun) to rise and set
- islet
- (bound form) spine; backbone; (bound form) ridge
- storm; violent commotion; fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc)
- to protect
- thunderstorm
- to shake; to vibrate; to jolt; to quake; excited; shocked; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder; ☳
- 东北 Dōng běi: 东北 Dong1 bei3: Northeast China; Manchuria东北 dōng běi: 东北 dong1 bei3: northeast
- to change one's viewpoint; to turn from side to side (in bed)
- by good fortune; luckily
- power; might; prestige
- to roam about; to wander without a home
- to help those in distress
- torrential
- to shake; to vibrate
- gall bladder; courage; guts; gall; inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)
- circumstances; scene; about; probably
- gale; CL:場|场[chang2]
- 暴 bào: 暴 bao4: sudden; violent; cruel; to show or expose; to injure暴 Bào: 暴 Bao4: surname Bao
- 10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Rooster; ancient Chinese compass point: 270° (west)
- reef; shoal rock
- anchor
- to regain; to retake; to take back; to withdraw; to revoke