Vocabulary: 楚辞选
- city walls; city; town; CL:座[zuo4],道[dao4],個|个[ge4]
- on top of; at the summit
- 厉 Lì: 厉 Li4: surname Li厉 lì: 厉 li4: strict; severe
- northwest; northwestern
- in the ordinary course of events; ordinarily; normally
- to not understand; to be puzzled by; indissoluble
- to bloom; to open; to be open (to the public); to open up (to the outside); to be open-minded; unrestrained by convention; unconstrained in one's sexuality
- the North Pole; the north magnetic pole
- candle; (literary) to illuminate
- flower fair or festival
- 东海 Dōng Hǎi: 东海 Dong1 Hai3: East China Sea; East Sea (Chinese mythology and ancient geography)东海 Dōng hǎi: 东海 Dong1 hai3: see 東海縣|东海县[Dong1 hai3 Xian4]
- island
- coral
- Classic of Rites
- orangutan; (slang) dialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin
- young dragon with horns
- swimming; to swim
- 毁 hǔi: 毁 hui3: to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander毁 hǔi: 毁 hui3: to destroy by fire毁 hǔi: 毁 hui3: to defame; to slander
- four of a kind; quads (poker)
- 腿 tǔi: 腿 tui3: leg; CL:條|条[tiao2]腿 tǔi: 腿 tui3: hip bone
- to drift without a resting place (idiom); roving; errant; vagrant; erratic
- Classic of Mountain and Sea, probably compiled c. 500 BC-200 BC, contains wide range of geography, mythology, witchcraft, popular customs etc
- to protect from wind; fangfeng (Saposhnikovia divaricata), its root used in TCM
- height (of person); length of clothing from shoulders to bottom (tailor or dressmaker's measure)
- mountain range
- 叶 xié: 叶 xie2: to be in harmony叶 yè: 叶 ye4: leaf; page; lobe; (historical) period; classifier for small boats叶 Yè: 叶 Ye4: surname Ye
- root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; CL:條|条[tiao2]; radical (chemistry)
- 渠 Qú: 渠 Qu2: surname Qu渠 jù: 渠 ju4: how can it be that?渠 qú: 渠 qu2: (artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL:條|条[tiao2]); (literary) big; great; (dialect) he; she; him; her; (old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe
- (literary) to change one's residence
- tall; lofty; towering
- 足 zú: 足 zu2: (bound form) foot; leg; sufficient; ample; as much as; fully足 jù: 足 ju4: excessive
- see 敦煌市[Dun1 huang2 Shi4]
- Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality; popularly known as 王母娘娘
- manpower; staff; human hand
- to treat as; to regard as
- odd; strange; uncanny; (bound form) monster; supernatural being; to find strange; to regard as odd; to blame; (coll.) somewhat; rather
- fowl; chicken; CL:隻|只[zhi1]; (slang) prostitute
- hoary head; old age