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  *首* | 首* | *首
head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc
HSK 4
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  *诗* | 诗* | *诗
poem / CL: / poetry / verse
HSK 4
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  *令* | 令* | *令
to order / to command / an order / warrant / writ / to cause / to make sth happen / virtuous / honorific title / season / government position (old) / type of short song or poem
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poem / CL: , ,
HSK 5
old verse / Classical Chinese poem
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  *和* | 和* | *和
to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence / to join in the singing / to chime in with others
Tang poetry; a Tang poem
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  *吟* | 吟* | *吟
to chant; to recite / verse; song (often used in titles of classical poems) / (literary) to lament; to groan / (bound form) (in poetry) the cry of certain animals and insects / (music) rapid vibrato (technique for playing the guqin 古琴) (cf. , wide vibrato)
spoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)
Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经
to read aloud / to recite rhythmically / to chant / to intone (esp. poems in rhythm)
a collection of choice items (poems, photos etc)
Man Jiang Hong (Chinese poems)
to include (in a collection) / to put together (stories, poems etc) / to record / to employ / to recruit
Cambridge (city), from a poem by Xu Zhimo 徐志摩
fine rain / drizzle / poem by Tang poet Li Shangyin 李商隱|李商隐
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  *辙* | 辙* | *辙
rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. [che4]) / (coll.) the direction of traffic / a rhyme (of a song, poem etc) / (dialect) (usu. after or 沒|没) way; idea
On Encountering Sorrow, poem by Qu Yuan 屈原 in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞
writer of 詞|词 (a kind of Classical Chinese poem) / person of literary talent
Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢, with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi
poem for singing / tune / music / CL:
selected works (poems, documents etc); anthology
reply to a poem in the same rhyme
heart-rending (drama, music, poem etc) / deeply moving
to inscribe a poem (often, composed on the spot) on a painting, fan or ceramic bowl etc as a work of calligraphy / an inscribed poem
a poem / a composition in verse / fig. epic (compared with historical epic) / the biblical Book of Psalms
notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old) / a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties
long poem
to compose a poem (to a given tune)
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  *阕* | 阕* | *阕
(literary) to end; to stop / one of the stanzas (usually two) of a ci poem 詞|词 / classifier for songs or ci poems
to write an inscription (poem, remark, autograph etc) / an inscription
love poem
a departing gift / a souvenir on leaving / a poem to mark one's departure
antiphon (i.e. solo voice answered by chorus) / sung reply (in agreement with first voice) / to reply with a poem in the same rhythm
names of the tunes to which 詞|词 poems are composed
to start learning as a poet / to write one's first (poem, essay etc)
third and fourth lines (in an eight-line poem) which form a couplet
long poem in lüshi form 律詩|律诗
to write a poem using another poem's rhymes
poetic occasion / elegant situation / in literature, the cue for a poem
soul-stirring (of drama, poem or artwork) / heart-rending / deeply moving
change of rhyme (within a poem)
poem
to respond to a poem with a poem
to contain / to hold / content / (of a poem etc) full of implicit meaning
Genesis (first book of the Bible) / the Creation, an epic poem of the Naxi 納西|纳西 ethnic group
to contain (e.g. poem contains feelings) / contained in
to write a poem on the order of the Emperor
a poem goes:
Tianwen, or Questions to Heaven, a long poem by Chu Yuan 屈原 / Tianwen, a series of interplanetary missions developed by the China National Space Administration starting in 2016, named after the poem
Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
River on a spring night, long yuefu poem by 張若虛|张若虚
doubly homesick for our dear ones at each festive day (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维)
Song of the Pipa Player, long poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易
village of blossoming apricot trees where one can find a wineshop (reference to the famous poem 清明 by 杜牧)
Sun Zhu (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three Hundred Tang Poems 唐詩三百首|唐诗三百首 / also known by assumed name 蘅塘退士
filled with joy (quotation from poems by Cao Cao 曹操)
Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜
humorous poem / limerick
part of the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 / a song / a poem set to elegant music / a refined chant / the biblical Song of Solomon
Lament for the South, long poem in Fu style by Yu Xin 庾信 mourning the passing of Liang of the Southern dynasties 南朝梁朝
prose poem
"he failed to complete his quest before death" (line from the poem "The Premier of Shu" 蜀相 by Du Fu 杜甫)
Anthology of ci poems tunes (1795), edited by Xu Menglan 舒夢蘭|舒梦兰, with 100 accessible poems from Tang through to Qing times
lit. lotus rises from the water (idiom); fig. to blossom (of poem or art)
jade ice jug and autumn moon (idiom, from poem by Song writer Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡); fig. spotless white and pure / flawless person
(last line of the poem 聲聲慢|声声慢 by Song poet Li Qingzhao 李清照) / how can it be expressed in one word, "sorrow"? / how can words express such sadness?
Rigveda, Indian religious poem
Qin Taoyu, Tang poet, author of the poem "A Poor Woman" 貧女|贫女
song of lady Du Qiu, poem by Du Mu 杜牧
a lament (poem)
(last line of the poem 望岳 by Tang poet Du Fu 杜甫) with one look I shall see all the smaller mountains down below (from the summit of Mt Tai 泰山) / (fig.) awe-inspiring view from a very high place
Three Hundred Tang Poems, an anthology collected around 1763 by Sun Zhu 孫誅|孙诛
Cui Hao (-754), Tang dynasty poet and author of poem Yellow Crane Tower 黃鶴樓|黄鹤楼
incessant playing of instruments and reciting of poems (idiom)
spoofing culture (Web-based genre in PRC acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)
unidentified type of bird referred to in ancient Chinese poems
narrative poem
a stranger in a strange land (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维)
to continue to discuss a poem over a long period
(a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor / (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes
Shu Menglan (1759-1835), Qin dynasty writer, poet and editor of Anthology of ci poems tunes 白香詞譜|白香词谱
assumed name of Sun Zhu 孫誅|孙诛 (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three Hundred Tang Poems 唐詩三百首|唐诗三百首
The Old Charcoal Seller, poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易


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