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Kanji Detail for 詩 - "poetry, poem"

詩

  • Meaning

    詩 means "poetry, poem."

    1. Poetry - Verse; literary art form.

    2. Poem - A composed piece of verse.

  • Words using 詩

    • 詩人 しじん Listen poet
    • 詩集 ししゅう Listen poetry anthology; collection of poems; collected poems
    • 近代詩 きんだいし Listen modern poetry; modern-style poetry

  • Four-character idioms with 詩

    • 桂冠詩人 けいかんしじん Listen poet laureate
    • 詩歌管弦 しいかかんげん Listen Chinese and Japanese poetry and instrumental music; poetry and music; literature and music

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    • Verified meaning: poetry, poem
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read うた, ことば, し, しらべ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 詩

    Given names 詩(うた)Listen 詩(ことば)Listen 詩(し)Listen 詩(しらべ)Listen

  • 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).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    shi(シ) シ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    uta(うた) うた

  • Strokes

    tip

    13 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    言 (gen・gomben・kotoba)

  • Related Keywords

    poetry poem verse lyric ballad ode sonnet elegy haiku stanza couplet rhyme literary meter rhythm

Sentences including 詩

  • 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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