Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- original; former
- genuine; honest and sincere
- (of a person) upright; respectable; decent; (Tw) (of a business etc) reputable
- to hang (down); droop; dangle; bend down; hand down; bequeath; nearly; almost; to approach
- 卓 Zhúo: 卓 Zhuo2: surname Zhuo卓 zhúo: 卓 zhuo2: outstanding
- old gentleman; old man
- the Yellow Emperor, mythological emperor of China, reigned c. 2697-2597 BC
- eyesight; visual acuity
- duck (CL:隻|只[zhi1]); (slang) male prostitute
- to mix; to mingle
- (bound form) general; approximate; without exception; categorically; (bound form) bearing; deportment
- ancient measuring vessel; fifty liters; dry measure for grain equal to five dou 五斗 (before Tang, ten pecks)
- superficial; shallow
- stubborn; obstinate
- stolen goods; loot; spoils
- brilliancy (of gems)
- excellence; luster of gems
- village; hamlet; CL:座[zuo4]
- to speak slowly; inarticulate
- battle cry
- wooden and slow of speech; slow-speeched; inarticulate; unsophisticated
- bad; ill; not good at; not to be pooh-poohed; quite impressive
- to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word
- to sculpt; to carve (jade); ornate artwork; overly elaborate prose
- to accumulate; to collect; to build up
- need not
- to accumulate; accumulation; cumulative; cumulatively
- to the end (of); at the end of; in the end; to come to an end
- wide; broad; extensive; vast
- glorious; sob; weep
- to weep in sorrow
- Earth Deity (often paired with 皇天[Huang2 tian1], August Heaven)
- sharp; keen; cutting; shrill; piercing
- 团 tuán: 团 tuan2: round; lump; ball; to roll into a ball; to gather; regiment; group; society; classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke)团 tuán: 团 tuan2: dumpling
- synonymous
- (fruit) peel
- color and luster
- morality; righteousness and justice
- dense (of plant growth); lush
- (bound form) to tie up; to tighten up; (bound form) to include; to comprise; to put (text) in brackets; Taiwan pr. [gua1]
- optimistic; sanguine; generous; magnanimous; open-minded
- everything
- to manage; to handle