Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- river dolphin
- fruit (produced by a plant); (fig.) fruits (of success etc); results; gains
- finger; CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]
- sugar; sweets; candy; CL:顆|颗[ke1],塊|块[kuai4]
- 穗 sùi: 穗 sui4: ear of grain; fringe; tassel穗 Sùi: 穗 Sui4: abbr. for Guangzhou 廣州|广州[Guang3 zhou1]
- pulp (of fruit); sth inside a covering; bad; weak
- 结实 jiē shi: 结实 jie1 shi5: rugged; sturdy; strong; durable; buff (physique)结实 jiē shí: 结实 jie1 shi2: to bear fruit
- to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; to inhale (esp. smoke); (of fabric etc) to shrink; (of certain plants) to sprout; to bud; to whip; to thrash; classifier for sheets (of tissues, wet wipes etc)
- silk; thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a trace (of smoke etc), a tiny bit etc
- raw material
- 沤 òu: 沤 ou4: to steep; to macerate沤 ōu: 沤 ou1: bubble; froth
- used in 苧麻|苎麻[zhu4 ma2]
- (bound form) enemy; (bound form) to be a match for; to rival; (bound form) to resist; to withstand
- cotton cloth
- generic term for cotton or kapok; cotton; padded or quilted with cotton
- soft; flexible
- latitude; woof (horizontal thread in weaving); weft
- History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Ban Gu 班固[Ban1 Gu4] in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
- tube; cylinder; to encase in sth cylindrical (such as hands in sleeves etc)
- this kind; these kinds; such
- sackcloth
- compatriots (literary); fellow countrymen
- tax stamp; to print a pattern or design on fabric
- pattern; way of doing sth; trick; ruse; fancy-style (as in 花樣滑冰|花样滑冰[hua1 yang4 hua2 bing1] figure skating)
- papercutting (Chinese folk art); to make paper cutouts
- to apply color; to color; to paint
- to wash; to rinse; any of three 10-day division of the month (during Tang dynasty); Taiwan pr. [huan3]; also pr. [wan3]
- my (polite); poor; ruined; shabby; worn out; defeated
- (literary) not to speak
- Japan (old); East Asian countries
- printed cloth; calico
- short name for Fujian 福建[Fu2 jian4]; also pr. [Min2]
- one by one; one after another
- to investigate
- Aztec or African marigold (Tagetes erecta)
- similar in shape and appearance
- palm tree
- cover; cap; topping; head covering; veil