Vocabulary: 九辩（节选）
from 楚辞选
- 坎x2 | Chapter Rank #177pit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water; ☵pit; hole
- 廪x2 | Chapter Rank #178government granary
- 贫x1 | Chapter Rank #392poor; inadequate; deficient; garrulous
- 士x2 | Chapter Rank #179surname Shimember of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor; honorific; soldier; noncommissioned officer; specialist worker
- 失职x1 | Chapter Rank #393to neglect one's duty; to be guilty of dereliction of duty
- 志x2 | Chapter Rank #180aspiration; ambition; the willsign; mark; to record; to write a footnote
- 不平x2 | Chapter Rank #181uneven; injustice; unfairness; wrong; grievance; indignant; dissatisfied
- 廓落x1 | Chapter Rank #394
- 羁旅x1 | Chapter Rank #395(literary) to stay long in a place far from home; (literary) person who lives in an alien land
- 无x7 | Chapter Rank #24not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -lessused in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]
- 友生x2 | Chapter Rank #182
- 惆怅x2 | Chapter Rank #183melancholy; depression
- 私自x3 | Chapter Rank #91private; personal; secretly; without explicit approval
- 怜x2 | Chapter Rank #184to pity
- 燕x1 | Chapter Rank #396Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei; the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409–436); surname Yanswallow (family Hirundinidae)
- 翩翩x2 | Chapter Rank #185elegant; graceful; smart; to dance lightly
- 其x10 | Chapter Rank #14his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)
- 辞x1 | Chapter Rank #397to resign; to dismiss; to decline; (literary) to take leave; (archaic poetic genre) ballad
- 蝉x2 | Chapter Rank #186cicada
- 寂x2 | Chapter Rank #187silent; solitary; Taiwan pr. [ji2]
- 漠x2 | Chapter Rank #188desert; unconcerned
- 无声x1 | Chapter Rank #398soundless; silent
- 雁x3 | Chapter Rank #92wild goose
- 雍x5 | Chapter Rank #41surname Yongharmony
- 南游x1 | Chapter Rank #399
- 鹍x3 | Chapter Rank #93see 鵾雞|鹍鸡[kun1 ji1]
- 鸡x3 | Chapter Rank #94fowl; chicken; CL:隻|只[zhi1]; (slang) prostitute
- 啁x2 | Chapter Rank #189twittering of birdsused in 啁哳[zhao1 zha1]; Taiwan pr. [zhou1]
- 哳x2 | Chapter Rank #190used in 嘲哳[zhao1 zha1] and 啁哳[zhao1 zha1]; Taiwan pr. [zha2]
- 悲鸣x1 | Chapter Rank #400to utter a mournful cry; wail; groan
- 独x6 | Chapter Rank #30alone; independent; single; sole; only
- 申x2 | Chapter Rank #191to extend; to state; to explain; 9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey; ancient Chinese compass point: 240°old name for Shanghai 上海[Shang4 hai3]; surname Shen
- 旦x2 | Chapter Rank #192(literary) dawn; daybreak; dan, female role in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)
- 不寐x1 | Chapter Rank #401
- 哀x1 | Chapter Rank #402Ai (c. 2000 BC), sixth of legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God, also known as Li 釐|厘[Li2](bound form) sorrow; grief; pity; (bound form) to grieve for; to pity; to lament; to condole
- 蟋蟀x4 | Chapter Rank #60cricket (insect)
- 宵x2 | Chapter Rank #193night
- 征x2 | Chapter Rank #194journey; trip; expedition; to go on long campaign; to attackto invite; to recruit; to levy (taxes); to draft (troops); phenomenon; symptom; characteristic sign (used as proof); evidence
- 时而x1 | Chapter Rank #403occasionally; from time to time
- 过x3 | Chapter Rank #95surname Guoto cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too-(experienced action marker)
- 中x5 | Chapter Rank #42(bound form) China; Chinese; surname Zhongwithin; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during; (dialect) OK; all rightto hit (a target); to be struck by (a bullet, illness etc); to win (a prize or lottery)
- 蹇x4 | Chapter Rank #61surname Jianlame; cripple; unfortunate; slow; difficult; nag (inferior horse); donkey; lame horse
- 淹留x2 | Chapter Rank #195to stay for a long period
- 成x1 | Chapter Rank #404surname Cheng; short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth
- 说明x1 | Chapter Rank #405to explain; to illustrate; to indicate; to show; to prove; explanation; directions; caption; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 是x14 | Chapter Rank #8to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion)
- 宋玉所x1 | Chapter Rank #406
- 写x1 | Chapter Rank #407to writeused in 寫意|写意[xie4 yi4]
- 的x68 | Chapter Rank #2really and truly(bound form) bull's-eye; targetof; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"); also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songsa taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士[di1 shi4])
- 长篇x1 | Chapter Rank #408lengthy (report or speech)