Vocabulary: 过得刚好
- Celosia argentea; luxuriant
- fascinating; enchanting; charming; tempting
- (bird species of China) western jackdaw; Eurasian jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)
- 天涯 tiān yá: 天涯 tian1 ya2: the other end of the world; a faraway place天涯 Tiān yá: 天涯 Tian1 ya2: see 天涯區|天涯区[Tian1 ya2 Qu1]
- wan and sallow; thin and pallid; haggard; (of plants) withered
- to hope for; to long for; to expect
- limpid autumn waters (trad. description of girl's beautiful eyes)
- 何为 hé wèi: 何为 he2 wei4: (old) why何为 hé wéi: 何为 he2 wei2: what is; (old) what for; (in a rhetorical question) it's no use
- 当日 dāng rì: 当日 dang1 ri4: on that day当日 dàng rì: 当日 dang4 ri4: that very day; the same day
- (bound form) chrysanthemum
- snowy night
- to gather around the stove; (Tw) to come together for a family dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve
- (dialect) today; (literary) the present; this age
- frost; white powder or cream spread over a surface; frosting; (skin) cream
- to hit; to strike; to break; Taiwan pr. [ji2]
- dead leaves; to lose leaves (of plants); deciduous
- floating in the wind; swaying; tottering; unstable
- 金 jīn: 金 jin1: gold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals; money; golden; highly respected; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]金 Jīn: 金 Jin1: surname Jin; surname Kim (Korean); Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
- rank or step; stairs
- 燕 yàn: 燕 yan4: swallow (family Hirundinidae)燕 Yān: 燕 Yan1: Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei; the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409–436); surname Yan
- wild goose
- wintersweet; Japanese allspice; Chimonanthus praecox
- to mourn; to lament
- approaching death; on one's deathbed
- to eat and drink; food and drink
- to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; to inhale (esp. smoke); (of fabric etc) to shrink; (of certain plants) to sprout; to bud; to whip; to thrash; classifier for sheets (of tissues, wet wipes etc)
- walnut; CL:顆|颗[ke1]
- 鸟 diǎo: 鸟 diao3: penis鸟 niǎo: 鸟 niao3: bird; CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2]; "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196); (dialect) to pay attention to; (intensifier) damned; goddamn
- monkey; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- house pet
- 园 yuán: 园 yuan2: land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation; abbr. for a place ending in 園|园, such as a botanical garden 植物園|植物园, kindergarten 幼兒園|幼儿园 etc园 Yuán: 园 Yuan2: surname Yuan
- delight; pleasure; joy
- 好玩 hǎo wán: 好玩 hao3 wan2: amusing; fun; interesting好玩 hào wán: 好玩 hao4 wan2: to be playful; to be fond of one's fun
- straight man (supporting role in comic dialogue 對口相聲|对口相声[dui4 kou3 xiang4 sheng1]); (of a straight man) to react with exasperation to the silliness of the funny man 逗哏[dou4 gen2]
- genius
- adorable; cute; lovely
- energy
- to embody; to reflect; to incarnate
- always
- 溜 lìu: 溜 liu4: swift current; rapids; (dialect) (of speech, actions etc) skilled; proficient; (of movements) quick; speedy; (bound form) rain runoff from a roof; (bound form) roof gutter; classifier for rows, lines etc; surroundings; neighborhood; (dialect) to practice; (dialect) to plaster; to fill in the cracks (with cement, lime plaster etc)溜 līu: 溜 liu1: to slip away; to escape in stealth; to skate
- to skylark; to play boisterously; to fool around
- to some extent; more or less