Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- pearl or jade earring
- wives of brothers; sisters-in-law
- to give up drinking; to abstain from drinking
- 中古 Zhōng Gǔ: 中古 Zhong1 Gu3: Sino-Cuban; China-Cuba中古 zhōng gǔ: 中古 zhong1 gu3: medieval; Middle Ages; Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties; Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English); used; second-hand
- complete; meet unexpectedly; see
- a woman who dies fighting for her honor or follows her husband in death
- to carry out (obligation) conscientiously; to behave sincerely
- (literary) to spy; to pry into
- imperial concubine
- to abandon (a child, elderly family member, pet etc); (literary) (of one's parents) to pass away
- (bound form) widow
- within; less than
- unmarried; single; alone
- surname Qu
- new shoot growing from cut branch or stump
- see 臨安區|临安区[Lin2 an1 Qu1]
- to give a lecture; to lecture on
- rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- 邸 Dǐ: 邸 Di3: surname Di邸 dǐ: 邸 di3: (bound form) residence of a high-ranking official
- oppose; to attack
- mat; rushes
- sensitive; emotional
- to hoot
- to put up with; to tolerate
- baffle (pier); whetstone
- exhort; stimulate
- brilliant; glorious
- to lead by the hand; to guide; to support