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shǒu head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc
shī poem / CL:首[shou3] / poetry / verse
lìng 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
诗歌 shī poem / CL:本[ben3],首[shou3],段[duan4]
古诗 shī old verse / Classical Chinese poem
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
唐诗 Táng shī Tang poetry; a Tang poem
yín 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[gu3qin2]) (cf. 猱[nao2], wide vibrato)
恶搞 è gǎo spoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)
诗经 Shī jīng Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing1]
吟诵 yín sòng to read aloud / to recite rhythmically / to chant / to intone (esp. poems in rhythm)
集锦 jǐn a collection of choice items (poems, photos etc)
满江红 Mǎn jiāng hóng Man Jiang Hong (Chinese poems)
收录 shōu to include (in a collection) / to put together (stories, poems etc) / to record / to employ / to recruit
细雨 fine rain / drizzle / poem by Tang poet Li Shangyin 李商隱|李商隐
zhé rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. [che4]) / (coll.) the direction of traffic / a rhyme (of a song, poem etc) / (dialect) (usu. after 有[you3] or 沒|没[mei2]) way; idea
离骚 Sāo On Encountering Sorrow, poem by Qu Yuan 屈原[Qu1 Yuan2] in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞[Chu3 ci2]
词人 rén writer of 詞|词[ci2] (a kind of Classical Chinese poem) / person of literary talent
黄鹤楼 Huáng Lóu 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[Cui1 Hao4], with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼[Yue4 yang2 Lou2] in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁[Teng2 wang2 Ge2] in Nanchang, Jiangxi
曲子 zi poem for singing / tune / music / CL:支[zhi1]
选编 xuǎn biān selected works (poems, documents etc); anthology
次韵 yùn reply to a poem in the same rhyme
荡气回肠 dàng huí cháng heart-rending (drama, music, poem etc) / deeply moving
题诗 shī 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
诗篇 shī piān a poem / a composition in verse / fig. epic (compared with historical epic) / the biblical Book of Psalms


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