Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- great; magnificent; macro (computing); macro-
- 盛 shèng: 盛 sheng4: flourishing; vigorous; magnificent; extensively盛 Shèng: 盛 Sheng4: surname Sheng盛 chéng: 盛 cheng2: to hold; to contain; to ladle; to pick up with a utensil
- limited; finite
- company; firm; corporation; CL:家[jia1]
- to sell; to sell on commission; to distribute
- whole nation; nationwide; countrywide; national
- Xinhua (New China), the name of various businesses, products and organizations, notably the Xinhua News Agency 新華社|新华社[Xin1 hua2 she4]
- bookstore; CL:家[jia1]
- to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
- number of written characters; number of words; word count
- 千 qiān: 千 qian1: thousand千 qiān: 千 qian1: used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]
- book format based on how a full printing sheet is cut or folded (often abbreviated to 開|开[kai1] after a numeral, e.g. 16-kai and 32-kai, roughly A4 and A5 respectively)
- millimeter
- 印 Yìn: 印 Yin4: surname Yin; abbr. for 印度[Yin4 du4], India印 yìn: 印 yin4: to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image
- 数 shǔ: 数 shu3: to count; to count as; to regard as; to enumerate; to list数 shùo: 数 shuo4: (literary) frequently; repeatedly数 shù: 数 shu4: number; figure; several; a few
- edition (of a book etc); edition number
- 年 Nián: 年 Nian2: surname Nian年 nián: 年 nian2: year; CL:個|个[ge4]年 nián: 年 nian2: grain; harvest (old)
- moon; month; monthly; CL:個|个[ge4],輪|轮[lun2]
- next in sequence; second; the second (day, time etc); secondary; vice-; sub-; infra-; inferior quality; substandard; order; sequence; hypo- (chemistry); classifier for enumerated events: time
- book number (esp. ISBN)
- to set a price; to fix a price
- 元 Yuán: 元 Yuan2: surname Yuan; Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)元 yuán: 元 yuan2: currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); (bound form) first; original; primary; (bound form) basic; fundamental; (bound form) constituent; part; (prefix) meta-; (math.) argument; variable; era (of a reign); (Tw) (geology) eon
- as; as if; such as
- to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)
- (physics) mass; quality (i.e. degree of excellence); quality and quantity
- question; problem; issue; topic; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to ask; to invite; please (do sth); to treat (to a meal etc); to request
- 与 yù: 与 yu4: to take part in与 yǔ: 与 yu3: (formal) and; together with (linking parallel nouns, verbs, or phrases); (formal) with; from (marking the other participant in an interaction, comparison, or contrast, e.g. 與他握手|与他握手[yu3 ta1 wo4 shou3] "shake hands with him", 與去年不同|与去年不同[yu3 qu4 nian2 bu4 tong2] "different from last year"); (literary) to give; to grant; to bestow
- to sell; to market; sales (representative, agreement etc)
- center; heart; core
- to exchange; to change places; to swap
- telephone; CL:部[bu4]; phone call; CL:通[tong1]; phone number
- preface; foreword; introduction; preamble; earlier remarks; earlier words; (literary) words of the ancient thinkers
- Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Parting 離騷|离骚 Lisao in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞
- one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- abbr. for Hunan 湖南 province in south central China; abbr. for Xiangjiang river in Hunan province
- monarch; lord; gentleman; ruler
- 大 dài: 大 dai4: see 大夫[dai4 fu5]大 dà: 大 da4: big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- 少 shǎo: 少 shao3: few; less; to lack; to be missing; to stop (doing sth); seldom少 shào: 少 shao4: young