Vocabulary: 天问（节选）
from 楚辞选
- 婴x2 | Chapter Rank #669infant; baby
- 茀x2 | Chapter Rank #670luxuriant growth
- 为此x1 | Chapter Rank #1144for this reason; with regards to this; in this respect; in order to do this; to this end
- 堂x3 | Chapter Rank #420(main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; CL:間|间[jian1]; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture
- 良药x2 | Chapter Rank #671good medicine; panacea; fig. a good solution; a good remedy (e.g. to a social problem)
- 固x3 | Chapter Rank #421hard; strong; solid; sure; assuredly; undoubtedly; of course; indeed; admittedly
- 式x2 | Chapter Rank #672type; form; pattern; style
- 横x2 | Chapter Rank #673harsh and unreasonable; unexpectedhorizontal; across; crosswise; horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters); to place (sth) flat (on a surface); to cross (a river, etc); in a jumble; chaotic; (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable; violent
- 阳x1 | Chapter Rank #1145positive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism); Yang, opposite: 陰|阴[yin1]
- 离x1 | Chapter Rank #1146mythical beast (archaic)surname Lito leave; to part from; to be away from; (in giving distances) from; without (sth); independent of; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire; ☲
- 鸟x7 | Chapter Rank #138bird; CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2]; "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196); (dialect) to pay attention to; (intensifier) damned; goddamnpenis
- 鸣x3 | Chapter Rank #422to cry (of birds, animals and insects); to make a sound; to voice (one's gratitude, grievance etc)
- 丧x2 | Chapter Rank #674mourning; funeral; (old) corpseto lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc); to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc); to die; disappointed; discouraged
- 体x3 | Chapter Rank #423used in 體己|体己[ti1 ji5]; Taiwan pr. [ti3]body; form; style; system; substance; to experience; aspect (linguistics)
- 蓱x3 | Chapter Rank #424
- 号x6 | Chapter Rank #166(bound form) to wail; to howl(literary) to call out; to command; (bound form) bugle; trumpet; (bound form) signal; bugle call (e.g. 起床號|起床号[qi3 chuang2 hao4]); (bound form) mark; sign; to mark; to label; to assign a number; (bound form) name; appellation (e.g. 國號|国号[guo2 hao4], 年號|年号[nian2 hao4], 遼寧號|辽宁号[Liao2 ning2 Hao4]); (after a numeral) number designation (e.g. 237號房間|237号房间[er4 san1 qi1 hao4 fang2 jian1] "Room 237"); day of the month (e.g. 七號|七号[qi1 hao4] "the 7th"); (bound form) size; type; category (e.g. 五號電池|五号电池[wu3 hao4 dian4 chi2]); (TCM) to feel (the pulse) (used in 號脈|号脉[hao4 mai4]); classifier for numbered people or items
- 雨x1 | Chapter Rank #1147(literary) to rain; (of rain, snow etc) to fall; to precipitate; to wetrain; CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]
- 兴x1 | Chapter Rank #1148surname Xingfeeling or desire to do sth; interest in sth; excitementto rise; to flourish; to become popular; to start; to encourage; to get up; (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect); maybe (dialect)
- 撰x2 | Chapter Rank #675to compose; to compile
- 体协x1 | Chapter Rank #1149sports association (abbr. for 體育協會|体育协会[ti3 yu4 xie2 hui4])
- 胁x2 | Chapter Rank #676flank (the side of one's torso); to coerce; to threaten
- 鹿x7 | Chapter Rank #139deer
- 膺x2 | Chapter Rank #677breast; receive
- 鳌x2 | Chapter Rank #678mythological sea turtle
- 戴x2 | Chapter Rank #679to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to supportsurname Dai
- 抃x3 | Chapter Rank #425to applaud
- 释x2 | Chapter Rank #680to explain; to release; Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2]); Buddhism
- 舟x2 | Chapter Rank #681boat
- 陵x2 | Chapter Rank #682mound; tomb; hill; mountain
- 迁x3 | Chapter Rank #426to move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc); to promote
- 嫦娥x3 | Chapter Rank #427Chang'e, the lady in the moon (Chinese mythology); one of the Chang'e series of PRC lunar spacecraft
- 打扮x1 | Chapter Rank #1150to decorate; to dress; to make up; to adorn; manner of dressing; style of dress
- 十分x1 | Chapter Rank #1151very; completely; utterly; extremely; absolutely; hundred percent; to divide into ten equal parts
- 漂亮x1 | Chapter Rank #1152pretty; beautiful
- 这般x1 | Chapter Rank #1153like this; this way
- 华丽x2 | Chapter Rank #683gorgeous
- 厅堂x1 | Chapter Rank #1154hall
- 她x6 | Chapter Rank #167she
- 药x2 | Chapter Rank #684leaf of the irismedicine; drug; substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting); CL:種|种[zhong3],服[fu4],味[wei4]; to poison
- 自然x1 | Chapter Rank #1155nature; natural; naturally
- 法则x2 | Chapter Rank #685law; rule; code
- 难于x1 | Chapter Rank #1156
- 抗拒x2 | Chapter Rank #686to resist; to defy; to oppose
- 离开x1 | Chapter Rank #1157to depart; to leave
- 阳气x2 | Chapter Rank #687
- 生物x1 | Chapter Rank #1158organism; living creature; life form; biological; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 就要x1 | Chapter Rank #1159will; shall; to be going to
- 死亡x1 | Chapter Rank #1160to die; death
- 神鸟x1 | Chapter Rank #1161supernatural bird
- 鸣叫x1 | Chapter Rank #1162to emit a sound; (of birds, insects etc) to chirp, hoot etc; (of a siren, steam whistle etc) to sound