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rhyming couplet / pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
(idiom) baffling; bizarre; without rhyme or reason; inexplicable
HSK 7-9
implicit charm in rhyme or sound / hinted appeal / interest
HSK 7-9
nursery rhyme
verse form consisting of 8 lines of 7 syllables, with rhyme on alternate lines (abbr. to 七律)
poetic form consisting of four lines of five syllables, with rhymes on first, second and fourth line
nursery rhyme
mnemonic chant / rhyme for remembering (arithmetic tables, character stroke order etc)
rhyme
perfectly all right / without rhyme or reason
rhyming word ending a line of verse / rhyme
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
folksong / ballad / nursery rhyme
on the same track / in agreement / rhyming
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
rhyming verse
cadence / rhythm / rhyme scheme / meter (in verse) / (linguistics) prosody
final sound of a syllable / rhyme (e.g. in European languages)
to rhyme
change of rhyme (within a poem)
to rhyme / also written 協韻|协韵
music / rhyme and rhythm / initial, , and final and tone, 韻|韵, of a Chinese character / phoneme
regular verse / strict poetic form with eight lines of 5, 6 or 7 syllables and even lines rhyming
rhyme and tone / intonation
reply to a poem in the same rhyme
rhyme entry / subdivision of a rhyming dictionary (containing all words with the given rhyme)
Chinese phonetics (concerned also with rhyme in poetry)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *韵* | 韵* | *韵
the final (of a syllable) (Chinese phonology) / rhyme / appeal / charm / (literary) pleasant sound
rime dictionary (ancient type of Chinese dictionary that collates characters by tone and rhyme rather than by radical)
homophone group (group of homophone characters, in a rhyme book)
to rhyme / sometimes written 壓韻|压韵
to restrict to even tone (i.e. final rhyming syllable must be classical first or second tone 平聲|平声)
incoherent speech / to talk without rhyme or reason (idiom)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
a word that rhymes (with another word)
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
"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 be unable (to do sth) / no reason to ... / without rhyme or reason
two-syllable word featuring alliteration or rhyme, such as 玲瓏|玲珑
rhyme group (group of characters that rhyme, in rhyme books)
to write a poem using another poem's rhymes


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