Vocabulary: 天问（节选）
from 楚辞选
- 星宿x2 | Chapter Rank #562constellation (arch., now 星座); one of the 28 constellations of traditional Chinese astronomy and astrology; motion of stars since one's birth (predetermining one's fate in astrology)
- 陈列x1 | Chapter Rank #988to display; to exhibit
- 得x8 | Chapter Rank #104used in 得瑟[de4 se5]to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finishedstructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etcto have to; must; ought to; to need to
- 错落有致x1 | Chapter Rank #989in picturesque disorder (idiom); irregular arrangement with charming effect
- 太阳x8 | Chapter Rank #105sun; sunlight; sunshine; temple (on the side of the human head) (abbr. for 太陽穴|太阳穴[tai4 yang2 xue2])
- 早上x1 | Chapter Rank #990early morning; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 从x12 | Chapter Rank #61surname Congfrom; through; via; (bound form) to follow; (bound form) to obey; (bound form) to engage in (an activity); (used before a negative) ever; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer; attendant; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor
- 晚上x1 | Chapter Rank #991evening; night; CL:個|个[ge4]; in the evening
- 停x2 | Chapter Rank #563to stop; to halt; to park (a car)
- 宿x4 | Chapter Rank #242lodge for the night; old; formernight; classifier for nightsconstellationsurname Su
- 天明x1 | Chapter Rank #992dawn; daybreak
- 天黑x1 | Chapter Rank #993to get dark; dusk
- 要x14 | Chapter Rank #51to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) important(bound form) to demand; to coerce
- 走x3 | Chapter Rank #353to walk; to go; to run; to move (of vehicle); to visit; to leave; to go away; to die (euph.); from; through; away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]); to change (shape, form, meaning)
- 路x2 | Chapter Rank #564road (CL:條|条[tiao2]); journey; route; line (bus etc); sort; kindsurname Lu
- 月亮x3 | Chapter Rank #354the moon
- 本领x2 | Chapter Rank #565skill; ability; capability; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- 复苏x1 | Chapter Rank #994to recover (health, economic); to resuscitate; anabiosis
- 兔x2 | Chapter Rank #566rabbit
- 肚子x2 | Chapter Rank #567belly; abdomen; stomach; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 女x10 | Chapter Rank #79female; woman; daughter
- 岐x8 | Chapter Rank #106surname Qi; also used in place names
- 无x3 | Chapter Rank #355used in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less
- 合x8 | Chapter Rank #107to close; to join; to fit; to be equal to; whole; together; round (in battle); conjunction (astronomy); 1st note of pentatonic scale100 ml; one-tenth of a peck; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗
- 夫x20 | Chapter Rank #29(classical) this, that; he, she, they; (exclamatory final particle); (initial particle, introduces an opinion)husband; man; manual worker; conscripted laborer (old)
- 取x2 | Chapter Rank #568to take; to get; to choose; to fetch
- 九x10 | Chapter Rank #80nine; 9
- 子x10 | Chapter Rank #81noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- 伯x16 | Chapter Rank #42father's elder brother; senior; paternal elder uncle; eldest of brothers; respectful form of address; Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]one hundred (old)
- 强x3 | Chapter Rank #356strong; powerful; better; slightly more than; vigorous; violent; best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强[bai3 qiang2]stubborn; unyieldingsurname Qiangto force; to compel; to strive; to make an effort
- 惠x3 | Chapter Rank #357(bound form) act of kindness (from a superior); (honorific prefix) kind (as in 惠顧|惠顾[hui4 gu4])surname Hui
- 阖x2 | Chapter Rank #569door; to close; whole
- 角x3 | Chapter Rank #358role (theater); to compete; ancient three legged wine vessel; third note of pentatonic scalesurname Jueangle; corner; horn; horn-shaped; unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime); CL:個|个[ge4]
- 旦x5 | Chapter Rank #191(literary) dawn; daybreak; dan, female role in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)
- 曜x2 | Chapter Rank #570bright; glorious; one of the seven planets of premodern astronomy
- 灵x2 | Chapter Rank #571quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin
- 臧x7 | Chapter Rank #127surname Zanggood; right
- 丈夫x1 | Chapter Rank #995husband
- 九个x4 | Chapter Rank #243
- 儿子x2 | Chapter Rank #572son
- 疫x2 | Chapter Rank #573(bound form) epidemic; plague
- 鬼x2 | Chapter Rank #574disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy
- 住x4 | Chapter Rank #244to live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease; (result complement indicating firmness or a stable achieved state)
- 祥瑞x1 | Chapter Rank #996auspicious sign
- 停留x2 | Chapter Rank #575to stay somewhere temporarily; to stop over
- 天门x2 | Chapter Rank #576Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei
- 关闭x3 | Chapter Rank #359to close; to shut (a window etc); (of a shop, school etc) to shut down
- 起来x1 | Chapter Rank #997to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2](after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state; indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]); indicating completion; (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment; also pr. [qi3lai5]
- 就x24 | Chapter Rank #19(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after; (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly; only; as little as; as much as; as many as; to approach; to move towards; to undertake; to engage in; (often followed by 著|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of; (of food) to go with; with regard to; concerning; (bound form) to reach; to attain (as in 一蹴而就[yi1 cu4 er2 jiu4]); (pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still ...; (pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be ...
- 黑暗x1 | Chapter Rank #998dark; darkly; darkness