shī

poetry; poem, verse, ode

DEFINITIONS

  • poetry
  • poem, verse, ode
  • abbr. for Shijing 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], the Book of Songs
  • poem
  • CL:首[shou3]
  • poetry
  • verse

WORDS

篇 shī piān a poem; a composition in verse; fig. epic (compared with historical epic); the biblical Book of Psalms
經 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]
聖 shī shèng "sage of poetry", epithet of Du Fu 杜甫[Du4 Fu3]
詞 shī cí verse
話 shī huà notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old); a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties
集 shī jí poetry anthology
體 shī tǐ poetic form or genre
fù shī to versify; to compose poetry
軒尼 xuān ní shī Hennessy (cognac)
wǎn shī elegy
近體 jìn tǐ shī a genre of poetry, developed in the Tang Dynasty, characterized by its strict form
遊吟人 yóu yín shī rén troubadour; bard
cháng shī long poem
yùn shī rhyming verse
tí 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