Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to swallow; to engulf; to gobble up
- to cry loudly
- habit; hobby
- 剪 Jiǎn: 剪 Jian3: surname Jian剪 jiǎn: 剪 jian3: (bound form) scissors or similar tool; to cut as with scissors; (bound form) to wipe out; to exterminate; to edit (video, audio etc)
- 兰 Lán: 兰 Lan2: surname Lan; abbr. for Lanzhou 蘭州|兰州[Lan2 zhou1], Gansu兰 lán: 兰 lan2: orchid (蘭花|兰花 Cymbidium goeringii); fragrant thoroughwort (蘭草|兰草 Eupatorium fortunei); lily magnolia (木蘭|木兰)
- slope; CL:個|个[ge4]; sloping; slanted
- to prune (branches etc)
- 节 jié: 节 jie2: joint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar); seasonal festival; (bound form) to economize; to save; (bound form) moral integrity; chastity; classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc; knot (nautical miles per hour)节 jiē: 节 jie1: see 節骨眼|节骨眼[jie1 gu5 yan3]
- delicate fragrance
- grace; natural charm
- petal; segment; clove (of garlic); piece; section; fragment; valve; lamella; classifier for pieces, segments etc
- chart; list; table; register; score (music); spectrum (physics); to set to music
- hard to come by; rare
- to give as a present; to repel; to bestow an honorary title after death (old)
- 荷 Hé: 荷 He2: Holland; the Netherlands (abbr. for 荷蘭|荷兰[He2 lan2])荷 hé: 荷 he2: lotus荷 hè: 荷 he4: to carry on one's shoulder or back; burden; responsibility
- rich; wide; broad
- stalk; stem; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc); (Chinese opera) painted face male role
- precious thing; treasure; culinary delicacy; rare; valuable; to value highly
- to cup one's hands in salute; to surround; to arch; to dig earth with the snout; arched
- wall; rampart
- to irrigate
- in case (sth happens); if; once (sth happens, then...); when; in a short time; in one day
- to wither; to drop; to decline; spiritless; Taiwan pr. [wei1]
- root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; CL:條|条[tiao2]; radical (chemistry)
- suddenly; abruptly; agitatedly; excitedly; vigorously
- unfortunately cannot enjoy (idiom)
- after the event; in hindsight; in retrospect
- in all cases; know
- just; fair; to permit; to allow
- oath; vow; to swear; to pledge
- cuckoo (Cercococcyx spp., also written 杜鵑鳥|杜鹃鸟); Indian azalea (Rhododendron simsii Planch, also written 杜鵑花|杜鹃花)
- to tailor (clothes); to trim (expenditure)
- branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc
- cannot bear to
- other; (sth or sb) else; the rest
- to be all the same way (literary)
- to burst open; to split at the seam
- to amass; to accumulate; to store up; (math.) product (the result of multiplication); (TCM) constipation; indigestion
- insufficient; lacking; deficiency; not enough; inadequate; not worth; cannot; should not
- garden plot
- goods; money; commodity; CL:個|个[ge4]
- market; city; municipality (administrative unit); (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods