Vocabulary: 招魂（节选）
from 楚辞选
- 杳x3 | Chapter Rank #244dark and quiet; disappear
- 深远x1 | Chapter Rank #908far-reaching; profound and long-lasting
- 冥冥x1 | Chapter Rank #909
- 黑乎乎x1 | Chapter Rank #910
- 狖x1 | Chapter Rank #911
- 长尾猿x1 | Chapter Rank #912
- 霰x2 | Chapter Rank #437graupel; snow pellet; soft hail
- 垠x1 | Chapter Rank #913limit; border; river bank
- 银x1 | Chapter Rank #914silver; silver-colored; relating to money or currency
- 边际x1 | Chapter Rank #915limit; bound; boundary; (economics) marginal
- 霏霏x1 | Chapter Rank #916
- 云气x1 | Chapter Rank #917mist
- 弥漫x1 | Chapter Rank #918to pervade; to fill the air; diffuse; everywhere present; about to inundate (water); permeated by (smoke); filled with (dust); to saturate (the air with fog, smoke etc)
- 屋檐x1 | Chapter Rank #919eaves; roof (i.e. home)
- 接x2 | Chapter Rank #438to receive; to answer (the phone); to meet or welcome sb; to connect; to catch; to join; to extend; to take one's turn on duty; to take over for sb
- 舆x2 | Chapter Rank #439(literary) chassis of a carriage (contrasted with the canopy 堪[kan1]); (literary) (fig.) the earth (while the carriage canopy is a metaphor for heaven); land; territory; (literary) carriage; (literary) sedan chair; palanquin; (bound form) the multitudes; the people; the public
- 春秋x2 | Chapter Rank #440spring and autumn; four seasons; year; a person's age; annals (used in book titles)Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State (722-481 BC)
- 末x4 | Chapter Rank #135tip; end; final stage; latter part; inessential detail; powder; dust; opera role of old man
- 贤人x3 | Chapter Rank #245great person of the past; venerable forebear; the great and the good
- 髡x1 | Chapter Rank #920scalping; to make the head bald (as corporal punishment)
- 昆x1 | Chapter Rank #921used in place names, notably Kunlun Mountains 崑崙|昆仑[Kun1 lun2]; (also used for transliteration)descendant; elder brother; a style of Chinese poetry
- 古时x1 | Chapter Rank #922antiquity
- 刑罚x1 | Chapter Rank #923sentence; penalty; punishment
- 剃发x1 | Chapter Rank #924
- 愤世x1 | Chapter Rank #925
- 头发x1 | Chapter Rank #926hair (on the head)
- 剃x1 | Chapter Rank #927to shaveshave; to weed
- 掉x1 | Chapter Rank #928to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose; to go missing; to reduce; fall (in prices); to lose (value, weight etc); to wag; to swing; to turn; to change; to exchange; to swap; to show off; to shed (hair); (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
- 桑x1 | Chapter Rank #929(bound form) mulberry treesurname Sang
- 扈x1 | Chapter Rank #930retinuesurname Hu
- 隐士x1 | Chapter Rank #931hermit
- 裸x1 | Chapter Rank #932naked
- 行x3 | Chapter Rank #246used in 道行[dao4 heng2](bound form) row; line; (bound form) line of business; trade; profession; (bound form) commercial firm; (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age); (in data tables) row; (Tw) column; classifier for rows or lines(bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit; (bound form) temporary; makeshift; (bound form) current; in circulation; (bound form) to do; to perform; capable; competent; all right; OK!; will do; behavior; conduct (Taiwan pr. [xing4]); (literary) about to; soon
- 赤身露体x1 | Chapter Rank #933completely naked
- 行走x2 | Chapter Rank #441to walk
- 伍x1 | Chapter Rank #934surname Wusquad of five soldiers; to associate with; five (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
- 子x1 | Chapter Rank #935son; 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-noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
- 伍子胥x1 | Chapter Rank #936Wu Zixu (–484 BC), Chu-born strategist for Wu. After the King of Chu executed his family, he fled to Wu and masterminded Wu's invasion of Chu (506 BC), destroying its capital in a campaign that doubled as personal vengeance.
- 吴国x1 | Chapter Rank #937Wu state (in south China, in different historical periods); Wu state 220-280, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权 the southernmost of the three Kingdoms
- 贤臣x2 | Chapter Rank #442
- 吴王夫x1 | Chapter Rank #938
- 差x1 | Chapter Rank #939to send (on an errand); (archaic) person sent on such an errand; job; official postused in 參差|参差[cen1 ci1]different; wrong; mistaken; to fall short; to lack; not up to standard; inferior; Taiwan pr. [cha1]difference; discrepancy; (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction); (literary) a little; somewhat; slightly
- 迫x1 | Chapter Rank #940to persecute; to oppress; embarrassedused in 迫擊炮|迫击炮[pai3 ji1 pao4]to force; to compel; to approach or go towards; urgent; pressing
- 自杀x1 | Chapter Rank #941to kill oneself; to commit suicide; to attempt suicide
- 比x1 | Chapter Rank #942to compare; (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun}; ratio; to gesture; (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)Belgium; Belgian; abbr. for 比利時|比利时[Bi3 li4 shi2]
- 殷x2 | Chapter Rank #443surname Yin; dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after its move to Yinxu 殷墟[Yin1 xu1] in present-day Henandark redflourishing; abundant; earnest; hospitableroll of thunder
- 纣x1 | Chapter Rank #943Zhou, pejorative name given posthumously to the last king of the Shang dynasty, King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王[Shang1 Zhou4 Wang2] (the name refers to a crupper 紂|纣[zhou4], the piece of horse tack most likely to be soiled by the horse)crupper (harness strap running over a horse's hindquarters and under its tail)
- 剖x1 | Chapter Rank #944to cut open; to analyze; Taiwan pr. [pou3]
- 死x3 | Chapter Rank #247to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
- 菹x1 | Chapter Rank #945marshland; swamp; salted or pickled vegetables; to mince; to shred; to mince human flesh and bones; Taiwan pr. [ju1]