Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- elephant; CL:隻|只[zhi1]; shape; form; appearance; to imitate
- look; style; appearance; approximation; about; CL:個|个[ge4]; also pr. [mo2 yang4]
- foot; leg (of an animal or an object); base (of an object); CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]; classifier for kicks
- to reside; to dwell; to live in a place; resident in
- (bound form) grain plant; cereal crop
- to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- until; (used in combination with words like 到[dao4] or 至[zhi4] in constructs of the form 到...為止|到...为止)
- strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled
- 雀 qiāo: 雀 qiao1: a freckle; lentigo雀 què: 雀 que4: (bound form) small bird; sparrow; also pr. [qiao3]
- crow; raven
- feather; plumage; plume
- to squander; lost
- animal hide; leather; to reform; to remove; to expel (from office)
- son born of a concubine; disaster; sin; evil
- 民 mín: 民 min2: (bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country民 Mín: 民 Min2: surname Min
- 妻 qì: 妻 qi4: to marry off (a daughter)妻 qī: 妻 qi1: (bound form) wife
- that; those; (one) another
- 洛 Lùo: 洛 Luo4: surname Luo; old name of several rivers (in Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Anhui)洛 lùo: 洛 luo4: used in transliteration
- imperial concubine
- mother-of-pearl
- 封 Fēng: 封 Feng1: surname Feng封 fēng: 封 feng1: to confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to seal; classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters
- swine
- to offer; to present; to dedicate; to donate; to show; to put on display; worthy person (old)
- 膏 gāo: 膏 gao1: ointment; paste; CL:帖[tie3]膏 gào: 膏 gao4: to moisten; to grease; to apply (cream, ointment); to dip a brush in ink
- after that; then
- (coll.) to drench
- to take a wife; to marry (a woman)
- pure; simple; unmixed; genuine
- fox
- (literary) dizzy; (literary) dazzled; bewildered
- 爰 Yuán: 爰 Yuan2: surname Yuan爰 yuán: 爰 yuan2: therefore; consequently; thus; hence; thereupon; it follows that; where?; to change (into); ancient unit of weight and money
- consider; estimate
- to be born; arrival of newborn; birth (of a savior or religious leader)
- to remove; to sack; to get rid of; to relieve (sb of their duties); to free; to lift (an embargo); to rescind (an agreement)
- to worry; anxiety (about)
- blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose
- imperial concubine
- husband and wife; married couple
- to cover; to encase; cover; sheath; to overlap; to interleave; to model after; to copy; formula; harness; loop of rope; (fig.) to fish for; to obtain slyly; classifier for sets, collections; bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names); tau (Greek letter Ττ)
- to harm sb; to inflict suffering; to victimize; pernicious
- wild boar (Sus scrofa); CL:頭|头[tou2]
- to offer sacrifice
- still; as before; yet
- dazed; confused; fuddled