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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
满江红 Mǎn jiāng hóng Man Jiang Hong (Chinese poems)
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)
次韵 yùn reply to a poem in the same rhyme
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]
千字文 Qiān wén Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
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)
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
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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