Vocabulary: 天问（节选）
from 楚辞选
- 权位x1 | Chapter Rank #1120power and position (politics)
- 反而x1 | Chapter Rank #1121on the contrary; instead
- 遭到x3 | Chapter Rank #412to suffer; to meet with (sth unfortunate)
- 人家x1 | Chapter Rank #1122household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be; CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1]other people; sb else; he, she or they; I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
- 吞灭x1 | Chapter Rank #1123to absorb
- 阻x2 | Chapter Rank #657to hinder; to block; to obstruct
- 穷x2 | Chapter Rank #658poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
- 西征x1 | Chapter Rank #1124punitive expedition to the west
- 岩x1 | Chapter Rank #1125cliff; rock
- 越x1 | Chapter Rank #1126to exceed; to climb over; to surpass; the more... the moregeneric word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods; abbr. for Vietnam 越南
- 化为x3 | Chapter Rank #413
- 巫x1 | Chapter Rank #1127surname Wu; also pr. [Wu2]witch; wizard; shaman; also pr. [wu2]
- 活x3 | Chapter Rank #414to live; alive; living; work; workmanship
- 咸x1 | Chapter Rank #1128surname Xianall; everyone; each; widespread; harmonioussalted; salty; stingy; miserly
- 播x1 | Chapter Rank #1129(bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc); to broadcast (radio signals etc); Taiwan pr. [bo4]
- 秬x2 | Chapter Rank #659black millet
- 黍x3 | Chapter Rank #415broomcorn millet; glutinous millet
- 莆x3 | Chapter Rank #416used in 莆田[Pu2 tian2] (the name of a place in Fujian)
- 雚x3 | Chapter Rank #417(archaic) stork; heron
- 投x2 | Chapter Rank #660to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc); to cast (a ballot); to cast (a glance, a shadow etc); to put in (money for investment, a coin to operate a slot machine); to send (a letter, a manuscript etc); to throw oneself into (a river, a well etc to commit suicide); to go to; to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of; (coll.) to rinse (clothes) in water
- 疾x2 | Chapter Rank #661(bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor
- 盈x2 | Chapter Rank #662full; filled; surplus
- 向x7 | Chapter Rank #137surname Xiangtowards; to face; to turn towards; direction; to support; to side with; shortly before; formerly; always; all along; (suffix) suitable for ...; oriented to ...to tend toward; to guidedirection; orientation; to face; to turn toward; to; towards; shortly before; formerly
- 西x1 | Chapter Rank #1130the West; abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2]; Spanishwest
- 奔x2 | Chapter Rank #663to go to; to head for; towards; Taiwan pr. [ben1]to hurry; to rush; to run quickly; to elope
- 穷极x2 | Chapter Rank #664extremely; utterly
- 险阻x1 | Chapter Rank #1131dangerous and difficult (path)
- 高山峻岭x1 | Chapter Rank #1132
- 飞渡x1 | Chapter Rank #1133
- 黄龙x2 | Chapter Rank #665see 黃龍縣|黄龙县[Huang2 long2 Xian4]
- 跃入x2 | Chapter Rank #666
- 渊x2 | Chapter Rank #667deep pool; deep; profound
- 巫者x1 | Chapter Rank #1134
- 怎x6 | Chapter Rank #165how
- 使x8 | Chapter Rank #113to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- 再现x1 | Chapter Rank #1135to recreate; to reconstruct (a historical relic)
- 教x1 | Chapter Rank #1136surname Jiaoto teach; to instruct(bound form) to teach; to instruct; a religion; to cause (sb to do sth); to tell (sb to do sth)
- 播种x1 | Chapter Rank #1137to grow (maize etc) from seed; to plant (maize etc) by sowing seedto sow seeds
- 黑x3 | Chapter Rank #418short name for Heilongjiang 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]black; dark; sinister; secret; shady; illegal; to hide (sth) away; to vilify; (loanword) to hack (computing)
- 生长x1 | Chapter Rank #1138to grow; to grow up; to be brought up
- 废x1 | Chapter Rank #1139to abolish; to abandon; to abrogate; to discard; to depose; to oust; crippled; abandoned; wastedisabled
- 可x4 | Chapter Rank #272used in 可汗[ke4 han2](prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very; but; however
- 种植x1 | Chapter Rank #1140to plant; to grow (a crop); to cultivate
- 一同x2 | Chapter Rank #668together
- 惩罚x4 | Chapter Rank #273penalty; punishment; to punish
- 难道x1 | Chapter Rank #1141don't tell me ...; could it be that...?
- 罪行x1 | Chapter Rank #1142crime; offense
- 擢发难数x1 | Chapter Rank #1143lit. as difficult to count as hair pulled from sb's head (idiom); fig. innumerable (crimes)
- 白x9 | Chapter Rank #94white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in operasurname Bai; Bai ethnic group
- 蜺x3 | Chapter Rank #419Japanese cicada