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(idiom) baffling; bizarre; without rhyme or reason; inexplicable
HSK 7-9
rhyming couplet / pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
implicit charm in rhyme or sound / hinted appeal / interest
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
mnemonic chant / rhyme for remembering (arithmetic tables, character stroke order etc)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *韵* | 韵* | *韵
the final (of a syllable) (Chinese phonology) / rhyme / appeal / charm / (literary) pleasant sound
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
folksong / ballad / nursery rhyme
regular verse / strict poetic form with eight lines of 5, 6 or 7 syllables and even lines rhyming
nursery rhyme
forms of versification / conventions regarding set number of words and lines, choice of tonal patterns and rhyme schemes for various types of Classical Chinese poetic composition / metrical verse
to rhyme / sometimes written 壓韻|压韵
music / rhyme and rhythm / initial, , and final and tone, 韻|韵, of a Chinese character / phoneme
reply to a poem in the same rhyme
cadence / rhythm / rhyme scheme / meter (in verse) / (linguistics) prosody
perfectly all right / without rhyme or reason
rhyming word ending a line of verse / rhyme
incoherent speech / to talk without rhyme or reason (idiom)
nursery rhyme
final sound of a syllable / rhyme (e.g. in European languages)
rhyming verse
on the same track / in agreement / rhyming
to write a poem using another poem's rhymes
traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone
homophone group (group of homophone characters, in a rhyme book)
rhyme and tone / intonation
change of rhyme (within a poem)
rhyme group (group of characters that rhyme, in rhyme books)
rime dictionary (ancient type of Chinese dictionary that collates characters by tone and rhyme rather than by radical)
to rhyme
poetic form consisting of four lines of five syllables, with rhymes on first, second and fourth line
rhyme
two-syllable word featuring alliteration or rhyme, such as 玲瓏|玲珑
Chinese phonetics (concerned also with rhyme in poetry)
verse form consisting of 8 lines of 7 syllables, with rhyme on alternate lines (abbr. to 七律)
"Summary of the Collection of Rhymes Old and New", supplemented and annotated Yuan dynasty version of the no-longer-extant late Song or early Yuan "Collection of Rhymes Old and New" 古今韻會|古今韵会
to rhyme / also written 協韻|协韵
a word that rhymes (with another word)
to restrict to even tone (i.e. final rhyming syllable must be classical first or second tone 平聲|平声)
to be unable (to do sth) / no reason to ... / without rhyme or reason
rhyme entry / subdivision of a rhyming dictionary (containing all words with the given rhyme)
Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical


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