志怪小说

tales of the supernatural (genre of fiction)

aspiration / ambition / the will

sign / mark / to record / to write a footnote

to write about mysterious or supernatural things

bewildering / odd / strange / uncanny / devil / monster / to wonder at / to blame / quite / rather

variant of 怪[guai4]

small / tiny / few / young

novel / fiction / CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]

to persuade

to speak / to say / to explain / to scold / to tell off / a theory (typically the last character in a compound, as in 日心說|日心说 heliocentric theory)

variant of 說|说[shuo1]

to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine