"poetic essay" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
poetic essay / taxation / to bestow on / to endow with syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
文章 wén zhāng article / essay / literary works / writings / hidden meaning / CL:篇[pian1],段[duan4],頁|页[ye4] syn
小品 xiǎo pǐn short, simple literary or artistic creation / essay / skit syn
作文 zuò wén to write an essay / composition (student essay) / CL:篇[pian1] syn
史诗 史詩 shǐ shī an epic / poetic saga syn
诗意 詩意 shī yì poetry / poetic quality or flavor syn
散文 sǎn wén prose / essay syn
命题 命題 mìng tí proposition (logic, math.) / to assign an essay topic
随笔 隨筆 suí bǐ essay syn
诗情画意 詩情畫意 shī qíng huà yì picturesque charm / idyllic appeal / poetic grace syn
格律 gé lǜ forms of versification / conventions regarding set number of words and lines, choice of tonal patterns and rhyme schemes for various types of Classical Chinese poetic composition / metrical verse
雅人 yǎ rén poetic individual / person of refined temperament
伏笔 伏筆 fú bǐ foreshadowing (literary device) / foretaste of material to come (in an essay or story)
八股 bā gǔ an essay in eight parts / stereotyped writing syn
律诗 律詩 lǜ shī regular verse / strict poetic form with eight lines of 5, 6 or 7 syllables and even lines rhyming syn
八股文 bā gǔ wén eight-part essay one had to master to pass the imperial exams in Ming and Qing dynasties syn
诗体 詩體 shī tǐ poetic form or genre
杂文 雜文 zá wén essay
绝句 絕句 jué jù quatrain (poetic form) syn
楚辞 楚辭 chǔ cí Songs of Chu, an anthology of poetic songs, many from the state of Chu 楚[Chu3], collected in the Han dynasty 漢朝|汉朝[Han4chao2]
岳阳楼记 岳陽樓記 yuè yáng lóu jì On Yueyang Tower (1046), essay by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹[Fan4 Zhong4yan1]
to resign / to dismiss / to decline / (literary) to take leave / (archaic poetic genre) ballad / variant of 詞|词[ci2] syn
韵事 韻事 yùn shì poetic occasion / elegant situation / in literature, the cue for a poem syn
打草 dǎ cǎo to mow grass / haymaking / to write a rough draft (of an essay etc)
劝善惩恶 勸善懲惡 quàn shàn chéng è to encourage virtue and punish evil (idiom) / fig. poetic justice / you get what's coming to you
雅人深致 雅人深緻 yǎ rén shēn zhì refined pleasure of poetic minds
风流韵事 風流韻事 fēng liú yùn shì poetic and passionate (idiom) / romance / love affair syn
暗香疏影 àn xiāng shū yǐng (poetic depiction of plum blossom)
三十六计 三十六計 sān shí liù jì The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction / all the possible schemes and stratagems
互文 hù wén paired phrases (poetic device)
五言绝句 五言絕句 wǔ yán jué jù poetic form consisting of four lines of five syllables, with rhymes on first, second and fourth line
兰舟 蘭舟 lán zhōu lit. boat made of lily magnolia wood / poetic term for boat
义理 義理 yì lǐ doctrine (esp. religious) / argumentation (in a speech or essay) syn
三家村 sān jiā cūn (lit.) village of three households / the Three Family Village, an essay column in a Beijing newspaper from 1961-1966, written by Deng Tuo 鄧拓|邓拓[Deng4 Tuo4], Wu Han 吳晗|吴晗[Wu2 Han2] and Liao Mosha 廖沫沙[Liao4 Mo4 sha1], criticized as anti-Party during the Cultural Revolution syn
五人墓碑记 五人墓碑記 wǔ rén mù bēi jì Five Men’s Tombstone Inscription, an essay by Zhang Pu 張溥|张溥[Zhang1 Pu3] commemorating five martyrs who died resisting the tyranny of Wei Zhongxian 魏忠賢|魏忠贤[Wei4 Zhong1xian2] during the late Ming dynasty
先天下之忧而忧,后天下之乐而乐 先天下之憂而憂,後天下之樂而樂 xiān tiān xià zhī yōu ér yōu , hòu tiān xià zhī lè ér lè to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation from the essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记[Yue4yang2 Lou2 Ji4] by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹[Fan4 Zhong4yan1])
原道 yuán dào original path / essay by Tang philosopher Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4]
策问 策問 cè wèn essay on policy in question and answer form used in imperial exams
策试 策試 cè shì imperial exam involving writing essay on policy 策論|策论[ce4 lun4]
策论 策論 cè lùn essay on current affairs submitted to the emperor as policy advice (old)
缀文 綴文 zhuì wén to compose an essay syn
开笔 開筆 kāi bǐ to start learning as a poet / to write one's first (poem, essay etc)
文不加点 文不加點 wén bù jiā diǎn to write a flawless essay in one go (idiom) / to be quick-witted and skilled at writing compositions syn
诗话 詩話 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
短文 duǎn wén short piece / article / short essay
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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