Corpus retrieval indicates the paradoxical "pan-polysemy " of the ancient Chinese phrase"Buzhi": despite its abundant semantic items and word classes,there are many more other popular and frequent senses in actual language use that are not established in the dictionary yet. This paper finds out three contributing factors for this tricky situation: Chinese language being high-context culture,the multi-classhood leading to semantic extension and conventionalized senses' overdue reorganization by dictionary. For that matter,it is necessary ...