Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- local accent; accent of one's native place
- 占 zhān: 占 zhan1: to observe; to divine占 zhàn: 占 zhan4: to take possession of; to occupy; to take up
- first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1] and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1]); the sixty-year cycle
- to advance with difficulty; to hesitate to advance
- to wait and see; to watch from the sidelines; to look around; to survey
- (literary) to pass away; to die; to depart from this world
- piercing; cutting; bone-chilling; penetrating (cold)
- grieved; pained
- too busy; to have no time for; fully occupied
- starlit night; by night; under the night sky; through the night
- to run fast; to speed; to gallop; to disseminate; to spread
- to bleed; to shed blood
- (literary) unlike one's parents; degenerate; unworthy
- to serve; to attend upon
- 药 yào: 药 yao4: leaf of the iris药 yào: 药 yao4: medicine; drug; substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting); CL:種|种[zhong3],服[fu4],味[wei4]; to poison
- unfilial
- to escape from
- younger brother's wife; sister-in-law
- silent; speechless
- to keep watch beside a coffin
- family matters; domestic affairs; housework
- funeral arrangements
- to ask oneself; to search one's soul; to reach a conclusion after weighing a matter
- to inquire
- to owe a debt; the sum owed
- 凶 xīong: 凶 xiong1: terrible; fearful凶 xīong: 凶 xiong1: vicious; fierce; ominous; inauspicious; famine
- 追 zhūi: 追 zhui1: to chase; to pursue; to look into; to investigate; to reminisce; to recall; to court (one's beloved); to binge-watch (a TV drama); retroactively; posthumously追 dūi: 追 dui1: to sculpt; to carve; musical instrument (old)
- to owe; to lack; (literary) to be deficient in; (bound form) yawn; to raise slightly (a part of one's body)
- order (from above)
- (used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ...
- improper; dishonorable
- to yield; to surrender
- to give birth; to reproduce; to produce; product; resource; estate; property
- this time
- to hasten home for the funeral of a parent or grandparent
- I; me; myself; oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned
- a manly man; a man of character