Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- wall; rampart
- purple; violet
- 坛 tán: 坛 tan2: altar; platform; rostrum; (bound form) (sporting, literary etc) circles; world坛 tán: 坛 tan2: earthen jar
- (bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc); to broadcast (radio signals etc); Taiwan pr. [bo4]
- 成 Chéng: 成 Cheng2: surname Cheng; short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]成 chéng: 成 cheng2: to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth
- classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old)
- lintel; crossbeam
- pharmacy; drugstore; dispensary
- to deceive; there is none
- curtain; screen
- (literary) to beat the breast; to break off; to snap off (a branch, an ear of corn etc)
- 白玉 bái yù: 白玉 bai2 yu4: white jade; tofu (by analogy)白玉 Bái yù: 白玉 Bai2 yu4: see 白玉縣|白玉县[Bai2 yu4 Xian4]
- to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks)
- angelica (type of iris); plant root used in TCM
- to wind round; to sew with slanting stitches
- Asarum forbesii (wild ginger plant)
- all kinds of grass; all kinds of flora
- real; true; honest; really; solid; fruit; seed; definitely
- to establish; to found; to set up; to build; to construct
- small rooms facing or to the side of the main hall or veranda
- 门 Mén: 门 Men2: surname Men门 mén: 门 men2: gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4]); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure; way to do sth; knack; method; approach; family; household; lineage; (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic); (bound form) class; category; division; phylum; classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc; (suffix) -gate (scandal)
- name of a mountain in Hunan
- used in 繽紛|缤纷[bin1 fen1]
- to welcome; to meet; to forge ahead (esp. in the face of difficulties); to meet face to face
- like the clouds in the sky (i.e. numerous)
- sleeve of a robe
- shoal; islet in a stream
- (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this
- sudden; unexpected; abrupt; suddenly; Taiwan pr. [zou4]
- head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc
- goddess; nymph
- 可 kè: 可 ke4: used in 可汗[ke4 han2]可 kě: 可 ke3: (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very; but; however
- mutual
- (facial) expression; to express one's feelings
- (bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination; state of mind; (bound form) Italy (abbr. for 意大利[Yi4 da4 li4])
- to place particular emphasis on
- to think of; to long for; to miss
- outer appearance; form; shape; formality; CL:個|个[ge4]
- princess
- to decline; to drop; to fall; to go down; to decrease