Vocabulary: 天问（节选）
from 楚辞选
- 防风x1 | Chapter Rank #1565to protect from wind; fangfeng (Saposhnikovia divaricata), its root used in TCM
- 身长x1 | Chapter Rank #1566height (of person); length of clothing from shoulders to bottom (tailor or dressmaker's measure)
- 三丈x1 | Chapter Rank #1567
- 嵎x1 | Chapter Rank #1568mountain range
- 本来x3 | Chapter Rank #502original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course
- 叶x2 | Chapter Rank #847to be in harmonysurname Yeleaf; page; lobe; (historical) period; classifier for small boats
- 小x1 | Chapter Rank #1569small; tiny; few; young
- 根x1 | Chapter Rank #1570root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; CL:條|条[tiao2]; radical (chemistry)
- 枝杈x2 | Chapter Rank #848
- 渠x1 | Chapter Rank #1571(artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL:條|条[tiao2]); (literary) big; great; (dialect) he; she; him; her; (old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloehow can it be that?surname Qu
- 形容x2 | Chapter Rank #849to describe; (literary) countenance; appearance
- 交错x1 | Chapter Rank #1572to crisscross; to intertwine
- 徙x1 | Chapter Rank #1573(literary) to change one's residence
- 麻x2 | Chapter Rank #850surname Mageneric name for hemp, flax etc; hemp or flax fiber for textile materials; sesame; CL:縷|缕[lu:3]; (of materials) rough or coarse; pocked; pitted; to have pins and needles or tingling; to feel numb
- 短小x1 | Chapter Rank #1574
- 高大x1 | Chapter Rank #1575tall; lofty; towering
- 南方x1 | Chapter Rank #1576south; southern direction; (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River
- 巴x1 | Chapter Rank #1577Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan); the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality; surname Ba; (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1 ji1 si1 tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1 xi1] (Brazil)to long for; to wish; to cling to; to stick to; sth that sticks; close to; next to; spread open; informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4]; bar (unit of pressure); nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail
- 足x2 | Chapter Rank #851(bound form) foot; leg; sufficient; ample; as much as; fullyexcessive
- 涉水x1 | Chapter Rank #1578
- 染黑x1 | Chapter Rank #1579
- 敦煌x1 | Chapter Rank #1580see 敦煌市[Dun1 huang2 Shi4]
- 西王母x2 | Chapter Rank #852Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality; popularly known as 王母娘娘
- 取食x1 | Chapter Rank #1581
- 居x1 | Chapter Rank #1582(archaic) sentence-final particle expressing a doubting attitudesurname Juto reside; to be (in a certain position); to store up; to be at a standstill; residence; house; restaurant; classifier for bedrooms
- 怪鱼x1 | Chapter Rank #1583
- 人面x1 | Chapter Rank #1584
- 人手x1 | Chapter Rank #1585manpower; staff; human hand
- 鱼x1 | Chapter Rank #1586fish (CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]); used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鮑魚|鲍鱼[bao4 yu2], alligators and crocodiles 鱷魚|鳄鱼[e4 yu2] and octopi 章魚|章鱼[zhang1 yu2])surname Yu
- 当作x2 | Chapter Rank #853to treat as; to regard as
- 怪x1 | Chapter Rank #1587odd; strange; uncanny; (bound form) monster; supernatural being; to find strange; to regard as odd; to blame; (coll.) somewhat; rather
- 鸡x1 | Chapter Rank #1588fowl; chicken; CL:隻|只[zhi1]; (slang) prostitute
- 白头x1 | Chapter Rank #1589hoary head; old age
- 鼠x1 | Chapter Rank #1590(bound form) rat; mouse
- 虎爪x1 | Chapter Rank #1591
- 意x1 | Chapter Rank #1592(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination; state of mind; (bound form) Italy (abbr. for 意大利[Yi4 da4 li4])
- 上古x3 | Chapter Rank #503the distant past; ancient times; antiquity; early historical times
- 夏代x2 | Chapter Rank #854Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC
- 善x2 | Chapter Rank #855good (virtuous); benevolent; well-disposed; good at sth; to improve or perfect
- 十个x1 | Chapter Rank #1593
- 烧死x1 | Chapter Rank #1594to burn to death
- 命令x1 | Chapter Rank #1595order; command; CL:道[dao4],個|个[ge4]
- 毕x1 | Chapter Rank #1596the whole of; to finish; to complete; complete; full; finishedsurname Bi
- 每个x1 | Chapter Rank #1597each; every
- 中间x1 | Chapter Rank #1598the middle; the inside; in the middle; within; between; among; during; in the meantime
- 蹲x1 | Chapter Rank #1599(dialect) to sprain one's foot or leg due to a sudden impact or landingto crouch; to squat; to stay (somewhere)
- 射中x1 | Chapter Rank #1600to hit the target
- 纷纷x1 | Chapter Rank #1601one after another; in succession; one by one; continuously; diverse; in profusion; numerous and confused; pell-mell
- 脱落x1 | Chapter Rank #1602to drop off; to fall off; (of hair, teeth etc) to fall out; to omit (a character when writing)
- 帝俊x1 | Chapter Rank #1603Dijun, Shang dynasty protector God, possibly same as legendary Emperor 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4]