Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- inner feelings; what is deep in one's heart
- many and elaborate
- sound of wind; valiant; melancholy
- (literary) window; (literary) cage for animals
- to shake; to flap; to vibrate; to resonate; to rise up with spirit; to rouse oneself
- broomcorn millet; glutinous millet
- to sing (of birds or insects); to warble; to chirp; to twitter
- spirit; soul
- zero; nought; zero sign; fractional; fragmentary; odd (of numbers); (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one); fraction; (in mathematics) remainder (after division); extra; to wither and fall; to wither
- dust
- Master Dengtu, a famous historical lecherous character; lecher; skirt-chaser
- (literary) beautiful woman; (literary) lovely; graceful; (literary) the moon
- (idiom) matchless; without equal; there is nothing better
- 神曲 Shén qǔ: 神曲 Shen2 qu3: The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 但丁神曲 shén qū: 神曲 shen2 qu1: medicated leaven (used in TCM to treat indigestion)
- to be fondly attached to; to not wish to part with; to cling to
- fill up; rumbling sound
- to destroy; to stop
- to talk to oneself
- to bend; to yield; to exhaust; to stutter
- mediocre person
- crow
- (literary) and; as well as; (literary) up to; as far as (as in 暨今[ji4 jin1] "up to now")
- old capital
- nobility; person of high rank
- 苴 jū: 苴 ju1: (hemp); sack cloth苴 Jū: 苴 Ju1: surname Ju
- to click one's tongue
- not having undergone; without (having gone though a certain process)
- subheading; specific item
- clamor
- not worth
- to tie up