| | head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc | HSK 4 |
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| | poem / CL: 首 / poetry / verse | HSK 4 |
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| | 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 | HSK 5 |
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| | old verse / Classical Chinese poem | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Tang poetry; a Tang poem | |
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| | Man Jiang Hong (Chinese poems) | |
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| | rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. [che4]) / (coll.) the direction of traffic / a rhyme (of a song, poem etc) / (dialect) (usu. after 有 or 沒｜没) way; idea | |
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| | 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. 猱, wide vibrato) | |
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| | spoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc) | |
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| | reply to a poem in the same rhyme | |
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| | Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經｜五经 | |
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| | Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer | |
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| | to read aloud / to recite rhythmically / to chant / to intone (esp. poems in rhythm) | |
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| | a collection of choice items (poems, photos etc) | |
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| | to include (in a collection) / to put together (stories, poems etc) / to record / to employ / to recruit | |
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| | On Encountering Sorrow, poem by Qu Yuan 屈原 in Songs of Chu 楚辭｜楚辞 | |
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| | writer of 詞｜词 (a kind of Classical Chinese poem) / person of literary talent | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | poem for singing / tune / music / CL: 支 | |
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| | selected works (poems, documents etc); anthology | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | a poem / a composition in verse / fig. epic (compared with historical epic) / the biblical Book of Psalms | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | long poem | |
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| | to compose a poem (to a given tune) | |
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| | (literary) to end; to stop / one of the stanzas (usually two) of a ci poem 詞｜词 / classifier for songs or ci poems | |
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| | to write an inscription (poem, remark, autograph etc) / an inscription | |
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| | love poem | |
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| | Cambridge (city), from a poem by Xu Zhimo 徐志摩 | |
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| | a departing gift / a souvenir on leaving / a poem to mark one's departure | |
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| | antiphon (i.e. solo voice answered by chorus) / sung reply (in agreement with first voice) / to reply with a poem in the same rhythm | |
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| | names of the tunes to which 詞｜词 poems are composed | |
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| | to start learning as a poet / to write one's first (poem, essay etc) | |
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| | third and fourth lines (in an eight-line poem) which form a couplet | |
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| | fine rain / drizzle / poem by Tang poet Li Shangyin 李商隱｜李商隐 | |
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| | long poem in lüshi form 律詩｜律诗 | |
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| | poetic occasion / elegant situation / in literature, the cue for a poem | |
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| | soul-stirring (of drama, poem or artwork) / heart-rending / deeply moving | |
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| | change of rhyme (within a poem) | |
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| | poem | |
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| | to respond to a poem with a poem | |
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| | to contain / to hold / content / (of a poem etc) full of implicit meaning | |
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| | Genesis (first book of the Bible) / the Creation, an epic poem of the Naxi 納西｜纳西 ethnic group | |
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| | Cui Hao (-754), Tang dynasty poet and author of poem Yellow Crane Tower 黃鶴樓｜黄鹤楼 | |
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| | to contain (e.g. poem contains feelings) / contained in | |
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| | to write a poem on the order of the Emperor | |
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| | a poem goes: | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | village of blossoming apricot trees where one can find a wineshop (reference to the famous poem 清明 by 杜牧) | |
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| | River on a spring night, long yuefu poem by 張若虛｜张若虚 | |
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| | doubly homesick for our dear ones at each festive day (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維｜王维) | |
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| | Song of the Pipa Player, long poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | filled with joy (quotation from poems by Cao Cao 曹操) | |
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| | Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜 | |
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| | humorous poem / limerick | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | prose poem | |
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| | "he failed to complete his quest before death" (line from the poem "The Premier of Shu" 蜀相 by Du Fu 杜甫) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | (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? | |
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| | Qin Taoyu, Tang poet, author of the poem "A Poor Woman" 貧女｜贫女 | |
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| | song of lady Du Qiu, poem by Du Mu 杜牧 | |
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| | the "Iliad", Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War | |
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| | a lament (poem) | |
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| | (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 | |
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| | Three Hundred Tang Poems, an anthology collected around 1763 by Sun Zhu 孫誅｜孙诛 | |
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| | spoofing culture (Web-based genre in PRC acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc) | |
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| | unidentified type of bird referred to in ancient Chinese poems | |
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| | narrative poem | |
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| | Rigveda, Indian religious poem | |
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| | to write a poem using another poem's rhymes | |
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| | a stranger in a strange land (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維｜王维) | |
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| | to continue to discuss a poem over a long period | |
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| | (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 | |
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| | Shu Menglan (1759-1835), Qin dynasty writer, poet and editor of Anthology of ci poems tunes 白香詞譜｜白香词谱 | |
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| | lit. lotus rises from the water (idiom); fig. to blossom (of poem or art) | |
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| | heart-rending (drama, music, poem etc) / deeply moving | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | The Old Charcoal Seller, poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易 | |
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