Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- to hide
- (bound form) meritorious accomplishment
- to change; to alter; to transform; to correct
- to worry; to be concerned
- to keep; to maintain; to hold; to preserve
- dignity; sanctity; honor; majesty
- to hide; to go into hiding; to take refuge
- cavern; cave
- 打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
- weaponry; to hold (a weapon); to wield; to rely on; to depend on; war; battle
- a long time
- to repent; to be penitent
- to alter
- deep; distant; mysterious
- to commend; to praise
- incorporeal; virtual; formless; invisible (assets); intangible
- gloom
- clear; distinct; to understand thoroughly; to be clear about
- condition; state; state of affairs
- disorderly and uneven (idiom); irregular and disorderly
- circle; round; circular; spherical; (of the moon) full; unit of Chinese currency (yuan); tactful; to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie)
- to seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of; to compete or strive for; to force one's way through; to leave out; to lose
- efficacy
- 轴 zhóu: 轴 zhou2: axis; axle; spool (for thread); roller (for scrolls); classifier for calligraphy rolls etc轴 zhòu: 轴 zhou4: see 壓軸戲|压轴戏[ya1 zhou4 xi4]; Taiwan pr. [zhou2]
- part (esp. of the body, but also of a vegetable, e.g. the root, or a garment, e.g. the sleeve, etc)
- to rotate; to revolve; to spin; to whirl
- center; central point; focus
- pillar; CL:根[gen1]
- to prop up; to support; strut; brace
- to undertake; to assume (responsibility etc)
- border; edge; boundary; interval; between; inter-; to meet; time; occasion; to meet with (circumstances)
- power; might; prestige
- 踏 tā: 踏 ta1: see 踏實|踏实[ta1 shi5]踏 tà: 踏 ta4: to tread; to stamp; to step on; to press a pedal; to investigate on the spot
- astronomer
- direction; points of the compass; bearing; position; azimuth
- 划 huá: 划 hua2: to row; to paddle; profitable; worth (the effort); it pays (to do sth)划 huá: 划 hua2: to cut; to slash; to scratch (cut into the surface of sth); to strike (a match)划 huà: 划 hua4: to delimit; to transfer; to assign; to plan; to draw (a line); stroke of a Chinese character
- sunrise
- Buddhist temple; mosque; government office (old)
- sundown; sunset
- function; capability
- hare; rabbit; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- toad
- 神女 Shén nǚ: 神女 Shen2 nu:3: The Goddess, 1934 silent film about a Shanghai prostitute, directed by 吳永剛|吴永刚[Wu2 Yong3 gang1]神女 shén nǚ: 神女 shen2 nu:3: goddess; (old) prostitute