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Kanji Detail for 詩 - "poetry, poem, verse"

  • Meaning

    詩 means "poetry, poem, verse."

    1. Poetry - Verse; literary art form.

    2. Poem - A composed piece of verse.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    poem; poetry

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    poetry; poem, verse, ode

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    abbr. for Shijing 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], the Book of Songs

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    poetry; poem, verse, ode

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Rhymed writing. Anciently mostly four-character verses. Originated from the Odes. Later mostly five and seven-character verses. By Tang, there was distinction between ancient poetry and recent style. Anciently also used for yuefu. Modern people often write to express emotions. A type of literature. | Name of a classic. What Conferta compiled and edited from contemporary odes, elegies, and hymns. What has been passed down by Mao has a total of 311 chapters. Called 毛詩 (Mao's Odes).
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Sentences including

  • She is quite a poet.

  • He has been writing poems since this morning.

  • This is the village where the poet was born.

  • I think he is something of a poet.

  • What do you think of her poem?

  • He is anything but a poet.

  • He is anything but a poet.

  • She wrote a lot of poems.

  • He is nothing but a poet.

  • This poem is too much for me.

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