Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- rare; rarely seen
- cuttlefish
- spider
- sea cucumber
- abalone
- name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album
- octopus
- cuttlefish
- insecticide
- to treat; to cure; therapy
- obstinate disease; (of passion, hobbies) long-term
- ulcer; plague
- see 永州市[Yong3 zhou1 Shi4]
- (zoology) sea urchin
- (bound form) hedgehog
- to skin; to flay; to peel; (fig.) (coll.) to haul (sb) over the coals; also pr. [bo1pi2]
- food; delicacies
- to live in or on another organism as a parasite; to live by taking advantage of others; parasitism; parasitic
- 壳 qiào: 壳 qiao4: (bound form) shell; Taiwan pr. [ke2]壳 ké: 壳 ke2: (coll.) shell (of an egg, nut, crab etc); case; casing; housing (of a machine or device)
- to kneel
- the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism); the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放|大鸣大放[da4 ming2 da4 fang4], 大辯論|大辩论[da4 bian4 lun4], 大字報|大字报[da4 zi4 bao4] (PRC)
- a household; door; family
- fragmentary; trifling
- beetle
- Extensive records of the Taiping era (978), fictional history edited by Li Fang 李昉
- greater than; bigger than; more than
- first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old); ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
- seamless
- (bound form) the navel; the umbilicus; (bound form) the belly flap of a crab; apron
- eye; eyeball
- spurt out of the mouth
- small clam (Arca inflata)
- (zoology) sea horse; (anatomy) hippocampus (abbr. for 海馬體|海马体[hai3 ma3 ti3])
- thin slice; thin section; flake; Taiwan pr. [bo2 pian4]
- wood shavings
- Wolfiporia extensa (a wood-decay fungus); fu ling; tuckahoe
- not easy to do sth; difficult; unchanging