Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- carpenter's square; rule; regulation; pattern; to carve
- bridge
- Chinese trumpet vine (Campsis grandiflora)
- (of a snake) to wriggle along; (of a river etc) to zigzag; to meander; to wind
- forty-sixth year F10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1969 or 2029
- disastrous; to turn into a disaster
- (literary) leftovers (of a meal); (literary) to eat leftovers
- filling; stuffing (for dumplings, pies etc)
- barefoot
- to raise; to rear; to feed
- pat
- draw forth; horizontal railing
- spray of water; splash; (dialect) chickenpox
- clan
- impoverished; lacking; deficient; limited; meager; impoverishment; lack; deficiency
- to rest; to take a break; to stop; to halt; (dialect) to sleep; a moment; a short while
- to execute by hanging; to hang oneself
- to fear; apprehensive
- to guard; to protect
- haze
- good aspects; strong points
- to capture
- can be regarded as; qualifies as (something positive)
- (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell
- luckily; by a fluke
- Chang'e, the lady in the moon (Chinese mythology); one of the Chang'e series of PRC lunar spacecraft
- to accuse; to charge; to indict
- (literary) disease; also pr. [e1]
- Jade Emperor (in Taoism)
- parallel (sentences); parallel prose
- historical remains; things that have survived since ancient times; (of such things) to survive
- 黄菊 Huáng Jú: 黄菊 Huang2 Ju2: Huang Ju (1938-2007), Chinese politician黄菊 huáng jú: 黄菊 huang2 ju2: yellow chrysanthemum; wine
- to be shaded or concealed by foliage; to conceal; hidden; covert; shade (of a tree)
- hanging screen; curtain over shop door (for privacy and serving as advertisement)