Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- sandy soil
- phenomenon; CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]; appearance
- to crush; to smash; to shatter
- spacious and empty; void
- gourd
- strong; solid; firm; unyielding; resolute
- one side; other; different; lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc)
- to stay for a time; to stop over; to lodge; to sink down (into soft ground); leftovers
- end; extremity; limit
- calamity; disaster; CL:個|个[ge4]
- sound and meaning
- goose; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- 毋 wú: 毋 wu2: (literary) no; don't; to not have; nobody毋 Wú: 毋 Wu2: surname Wu
- to close a door
- to erect; vertical; vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)
- eye; CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]
- 凶恶 xīong è: 凶恶 xiong1 e4: fierce; ferocious; fiendish; frightening凶恶 xīong è: 凶恶 xiong1 e4: ferocious; fiendish; frightening
- to play (as children do); to amuse oneself
- sharp; intense; penetrating; pointed; acute (illness)
- to swell; to bulge
- mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female
- thumb; big toe
- blank (e.g. for a coin); unburnt earthenware; semifinished product; Taiwan pr. [pei1]
- animals
- delicious; delicious food; delicacy
- 绿 lù: 绿 lu4: used in names绿 lǜ: 绿 lu:4: green; (slang) (derived from 綠帽子|绿帽子[lu:4 mao4 zi5]) to cheat on (one's spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend)
- duckweed
- lopsided; unbalanced; abnormal; irregular; odd fractional remnant
- scattered
- field; farmland; cropland; plight; extent
- pond; pool; sink; washbasin
- wide; vast
- vehicle
- to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head
- torch; CL:把[ba3]
- 冒 Mào: 冒 Mao4: surname Mao冒 mào: 冒 mao4: to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; (bound form) reckless; to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign; (literary) to cover
- to precede; to guide
- circumstances; situation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to stop; to come to a halt
- within the borders; internal (to a country, province, city etc); domestic
- Dahu or Tahu township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县[Miao2 li4 xian4], northwest Taiwan
- entirely; to exhaust
- red; pellet; powder; cinnabar