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诗作 shī zuò poem; poetic works
诗歌 shī poem / CL:本[ben3],首[shou3],段[duan4]
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
shī poem / CL:首[shou3] / poetry / verse
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
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]
创世纪 Chuàng shì Genesis (first book of the Bible) / the Creation, an epic poem of the Naxi 納西|纳西[Na4 xi1] ethnic group
shǒu head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc
诗篇 shī piān a poem / a composition in verse / fig. epic (compared with historical epic) / the biblical Book of Psalms
千字文 Qiān wén Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
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
唐诗 Táng shī Tang poetry; a Tang poem
古诗 shī old verse / Classical Chinese poem
曲子 zi poem for singing / tune / music / CL:支[zhi1]
唐诗三百首 Táng shī Sān bǎi Shǒu Three Hundred Tang Poems, an anthology collected around 1763 by Sun Zhu 孫誅|孙诛[Sun1 Zhu1]
散文诗 sǎn wén shī prose poem
冰壶秋月 bīng qiū yuè 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
康桥 Kāng qiáo Cambridge (city), from a poem by Xu Zhimo 徐志摩
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)
崔颢 Cuī Hào Cui Hao (-754), Tang dynasty poet and author of poem Yellow Crane Tower 黃鶴樓|黄鹤楼
琵琶行 pa Xíng Song of the Pipa Player, long poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易[Bai2 Ju1 yi4]
孙诛 Sūn Zhū Sun Zhu (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three Hundred Tang Poems 唐詩三百首|唐诗三百首[Tang2 shi1 San1 bai3 Shou3] / also known by assumed name 蘅塘退士[Heng2 tang2 Tui4 shi4]
离骚 Sāo On Encountering Sorrow, poem by Qu Yuan 屈原[Qu1 Yuan2] in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞[Chu3 ci2]
荡气回肠 dàng huí cháng heart-rending (drama, music, poem etc) / deeply moving
每逢佳节倍思亲 měi féng jiā jié bèi qīn doubly homesick for our dear ones at each festive day (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维[Wang2 Wei2])


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