Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- chaste
- prosperous; henry (unit of inductance)
- 证 zhèng: 证 zheng4: to admonish证 zhèng: 证 zheng4: certificate; proof; to prove; to demonstrate; to confirm
- (bound form) to overstep one's authority
- first day of the first lunar month; (old) calendar promulgated by the first emperor of a dynasty
- to avoid stating openly (esp. sensitive or unpleasant matters, usu. in the negative, as in 不諱言|不讳言[bu4 hui4 yan2] "to state frankly")
- child
- to open one's mouth (to eat, speak etc); to gape; to start talking (esp. to make a request)
- (Tw) to educate the public; to raise awareness
- wind force; wind power
- to examine; to test; to check
- to take oaths as a monk (Buddhism); to take orders
- government granary
- to go against the rules (of a religious order); to break a ban (e.g. medical)
- to return to normal life (leaving a monastic order)
- poor people
- father and elder brother(s); head of the family; patriarch
- honor and shame; sense of honor
- 方言 Fāng yán: 方言 Fang1 yan2: the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄|扬雄[Yang2 Xiong2] in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters方言 fāng yán: 方言 fang1 yan2: topolect; dialect
- age (of a young woman)
- 16; sixteen
- neat; lovely
- waist; waistline
- déjà vu (the experience of seeing exactly the same situation a second time); seemingly familiar; apparently already acquainted
- new worries added to old hatred (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new
- goodbye; see you again later
- (literary) respectful; deferential
- to lean over; to bend over; to stoop; to bow
- to kneel and bow with joined hands at forehead level; to worship
- honored sir (a person of higher status or seniority, or a Buddhist monk)
- fingertip
- equal; equality
- palm (of one's hand); control (extended meaning from having something in the palm of one's hand)
- floor
- roof ridge