Vocabulary: 天问（节选）
from 楚辞选
- 解x2 | Chapter Rank #637acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old)surname Xieto divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissectionto transport under guard
- 石x4 | Chapter Rank #260surname Shi; abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1], the capital of Hebeidry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗[dou3]; one hundred liters; ancient pr. [shi2]rock; stone; stone inscription; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
- 树x4 | Chapter Rank #261tree; CL:棵[ke1]; to cultivate; to set up
- 成林x1 | Chapter Rank #1082
- 哪x1 | Chapter Rank #1083(emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]; Taiwan pr. [nuo2]which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)how; which
- 种x10 | Chapter Rank #83to plant; to grow; to cultivateseed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts
- 野兽x1 | Chapter Rank #1084beast; wild animal
- 言谈x1 | Chapter Rank #1085discourse; words; utterance; what one says; manner of speech
- 有无x1 | Chapter Rank #1086to have or have not; surplus and shortfall; tangible and intangible; corporeal and incorporeal
- 出入x1 | Chapter Rank #1087to go out and come in; entrance and exit; expenditure and income; discrepancy; inconsistent
- 背着x2 | Chapter Rank #638carrying on one's backturning one's back to (sth or sb); keeping sth secret from (sb); keeping (one's hands) behind one's back
- 黄x4 | Chapter Rank #262surname Huang or Hwangyellow; pornographic; to fall through
- 神异x1 | Chapter Rank #1088magical; miraculous; mystical
- 蛇x3 | Chapter Rank #395snake; serpent; CL:條|条[tiao2]used in 委蛇[wei1 yi2]
- 头x2 | Chapter Rank #639head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading; classifier for pigs or livestock; CL:個|个[ge4]suffix for nouns
- 来x11 | Chapter Rank #71to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- 哪里x1 | Chapter Rank #1089where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪裡|哪里where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment
- 长生不死x4 | Chapter Rank #263immortality
- 干吗x1 | Chapter Rank #1090
- 看守x1 | Chapter Rank #1091to guard; to watch over
- 神奇x1 | Chapter Rank #1092magical; mystical; miraculous
- 草x4 | Chapter Rank #264grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough; CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]
- 杈x1 | Chapter Rank #1093fork of a tree; pitchforkbranches of a tree; fork of a tree
- 奇异x4 | Chapter Rank #265fantastic; bizarre; odd; exotic; astonished
- 巨蛇x1 | Chapter Rank #1094
- 吞下x2 | Chapter Rank #640
- 象x3 | Chapter Rank #396elephant; CL:隻|只[zhi1]; shape; form; appearance; to imitate
- 大的x4 | Chapter Rank #266
- 模样x1 | Chapter Rank #1095look; style; appearance; approximation; about; CL:個|个[ge4]; also pr. [mo2 yang4]
- 染x1 | Chapter Rank #1096to dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc); to contaminate; to add color washes to a painting
- 脚x2 | Chapter Rank #641foot; leg (of an animal or an object); base (of an object); CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]; classifier for kicks
- 青鸟x2 | Chapter Rank #642
- 居住x1 | Chapter Rank #1097to reside; to dwell; to live in a place; resident in
- 三危山x1 | Chapter Rank #1098
- 边x3 | Chapter Rank #397suffix of a noun of localityside; edge; margin; border; boundary; CL:個|个[ge4]; simultaneously
- 禾x1 | Chapter Rank #1099(bound form) grain plant; cereal crop
- 吃x5 | Chapter Rank #205to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- 他们x7 | Chapter Rank #136they; them
- 寿命x1 | Chapter Rank #1100life span; life expectancy; lifetime (of a machine)
- 为止x1 | Chapter Rank #1101until; (used in combination with words like 到[dao4] or 至[zhi4] in constructs of the form 到...為止|到...为止)
- 奇怪x1 | Chapter Rank #1102strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled
- 雀x3 | Chapter Rank #398a freckle; lentigo(bound form) small bird; sparrow; also pr. [qiao3]
- 射x9 | Chapter Rank #91to shoot; to launch; to allude to; radio- (chemistry)
- 乌鸦x1 | Chapter Rank #1103crow; raven
- 羽毛x2 | Chapter Rank #643feather; plumage; plume
- 散失x1 | Chapter Rank #1104to squander; lost
- 降x3 | Chapter Rank #399to drop; to fall; to come down; to descendto surrender; to capitulate; to subdue; to conquer; to tame
- 夷x3 | Chapter Rank #400non-Han people, esp. to the East of China; barbarians; to wipe out; to exterminate; to tear down; to raze
- 革x4 | Chapter Rank #267animal hide; leather; to reform; to remove; to expel (from office)
- 孽x2 | Chapter Rank #644son born of a concubine; disaster; sin; evil