Vocabulary: 天问（节选）
from 楚辞选
- 民x2 | Chapter Rank #645surname Min(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country
- 胡x3 | Chapter Rank #401surname Hunon-Han people, esp. from central Asia; reckless; outrageous; what?; why?; to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和[hu2])used in 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]beard; mustache; whiskers
- 河伯x5 | Chapter Rank #206name or river God associated with Yellow river
- 妻x4 | Chapter Rank #268(bound form) wifeto marry off (a daughter)
- 彼x6 | Chapter Rank #163that; those; (one) another
- 洛x4 | Chapter Rank #269surname Luo; old name of several rivers (in Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Anhui)used in transliteration
- 嫔x2 | Chapter Rank #646imperial concubine
- 珧x3 | Chapter Rank #402mother-of-pearl
- 利x1 | Chapter Rank #1105surname Lisharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit
- 决x2 | Chapter Rank #647to decide; to determine; to execute (sb); (of a dam etc) to breach or burst; definitely; certainly
- 封x5 | Chapter Rank #207surname Fengto confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to seal; classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters
- 豨x2 | Chapter Rank #648swine
- 献x2 | Chapter Rank #649to offer; to present; to dedicate; to donate; to show; to put on display; worthy person (old)
- 蒸肉x1 | Chapter Rank #1106
- 膏x3 | Chapter Rank #403ointment; paste; CL:帖[tie3]to moisten; to grease; to apply (cream, ointment); to dip a brush in ink
- 而后x1 | Chapter Rank #1107after that; then
- 浞x6 | Chapter Rank #164(coll.) to drench
- 娶x3 | Chapter Rank #404to take a wife; to marry (a woman)
- 纯x3 | Chapter Rank #405pure; simple; unmixed; genuine
- 狐x3 | Chapter Rank #406fox
- 眩x3 | Chapter Rank #407(literary) dizzy; (literary) dazzled; bewildered
- 爰x9 | Chapter Rank #92surname Yuantherefore; consequently; thus; hence; thereupon; it follows that; where?; to change (into); ancient unit of weight and money
- 交x2 | Chapter Rank #650to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to make friends; (of lines) to intersect
- 吞x3 | Chapter Rank #408to swallow; to take
- 揆x4 | Chapter Rank #270consider; estimate
- 上帝x9 | Chapter Rank #93God
- 降生x1 | Chapter Rank #1108to be born; arrival of newborn; birth (of a savior or religious leader)
- 解除x1 | Chapter Rank #1109to remove; to sack; to get rid of; to relieve (sb of their duties); to free; to lift (an embargo); to rescind (an agreement)
- 忧虑x1 | Chapter Rank #1110to worry; anxiety (about)
- 但x4 | Chapter Rank #271but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just
- 瞎x2 | Chapter Rank #651blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose
- 妃x5 | Chapter Rank #208imperial concubine
- 夫妻x2 | Chapter Rank #652husband and wife; married couple
- 拿x1 | Chapter Rank #1111to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)
- 起x3 | Chapter Rank #409to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
- 弓x3 | Chapter Rank #410surname Gonga bow (weapon); CL:張|张[zhang1]; to bend; to arch (one's back etc)
- 套x1 | Chapter Rank #1112to cover; to encase; cover; sheath; to overlap; to interleave; to model after; to copy; formula; harness; loop of rope; (fig.) to fish for; to obtain slyly; classifier for sets, collections; bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names); tau (Greek letter Ττ)
- 扳指x2 | Chapter Rank #653ornamental thumb ring (originally a ring, often made from jade, worn by archers in ancient times to protect the right thumb when drawing a bowstring)
- 射死x1 | Chapter Rank #1113
- 害人x1 | Chapter Rank #1114to harm sb; to inflict suffering; to victimize; pernicious
- 野猪x2 | Chapter Rank #654wild boar (Sus scrofa); CL:頭|头[tou2]
- 用x11 | Chapter Rank #72to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (bound form) expense; outlay; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore
- 肉x3 | Chapter Rank #411meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute; Kangxi radical 130
- 献祭x1 | Chapter Rank #1115to offer sacrifice
- 仍然x1 | Chapter Rank #1116still; as before; yet
- 不乐意x1 | Chapter Rank #1117
- 昏乱x2 | Chapter Rank #655dazed; confused; fuddled
- 妻子x2 | Chapter Rank #656wifewife and children
- 合谋x1 | Chapter Rank #1118to conspire; to plot together
- 射穿x1 | Chapter Rank #1119