"song writer" Chinese-English Dictionary

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作曲者 zuò qǔ zhě composer / song writer
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
作者 zuò zhě author / writer syn
雨果 yǔ guǒ Hugo (name) / Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer
漫画家 漫畫家 màn huà jiā cartoon writer (from Japanese mangaka)
手笔 手筆 shǒu bǐ sth written or painted in one's own hand / (of a writer, calligrapher or painter) skill / style / hand / (fig.) style shown in spending money, handling business etc / scale syn
道学 道學 dào xué Confucian study of ethics / study of Daoism / school for Daoism in Tang and Song times / Daoist magic / another name for 理學|理学, rational learning of Song dynasty neo-Confucianism
米尔顿 米爾頓 mǐ ěr dùn Milton (name) / John Milton (1608-1674), English republican writer and poet, author of Paradise Lost
全集 quán jí omnibus / complete works (of a writer or artist)
文学家 文學家 wén xué jiā writer / man of letters / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
文豪 wén háo literary giant / great writer / eminent writer syn
词人 詞人 cí rén writer of 詞|词[ci2] (a kind of Classical Chinese poem) / person of literary talent syn
契诃夫 契訶夫 qì hē fū Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays
笔杆子 筆桿子 bǐ gǎn zi pen / an effective writer syn
成名作 chéng míng zuò seminal work that propels a writer (or artist, composer etc) to fame
大仲马 大仲馬 dà zhòng mǎ Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870), French writer
笔者 筆者 bǐ zhě the author / the writer (usu. refers to oneself) syn
秀才 xiù cai a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical) / scholar / skillful writer / fine talent syn
宋朝 sòng cháo Song Dynasty (960-1279) / also Song of Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479)
山歌 shān gē folk song / mountain song
苏东坡 蘇東坡 sū dōng pō Su Dongpo, another name for Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼 (1037-1101), northern Song writer and calligrapher
泰戈尔 泰戈爾 tài gē ěr Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer
高尔基 高爾基 gāo ěr jī Gorkii (name) / Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist
小编 小編 xiǎo biān editor or creator of online content (diminutive term, often used to refer to oneself: I, me, this writer)
写手 寫手 xiě shǒu person who writes articles - newspapers, magazines, blogs (informal) / scribe / copyist / a talented writer of articles or of calligraphy
琼瑶 瓊瑤 qióng yáo Chiung Yao (1938-), Taiwanese writer
苏轼 蘇軾 sū shì Su Shi (1037-1101), aka Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡[Su1 Dong1 po1], Song dynasty writer, calligrapher and public official, one of the Three Su's 三蘇|三苏[San1 Su1] and one of the Eight Giants of Tang and Song Prose 唐宋八大家[Tang2 Song4 Ba1 Da4 jia1]
节度使 節度使 jié dù shǐ Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song
朱熹 zhū xī Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (1130-1200), also known as Master Zhu 朱子[Zhu1 zi3], Song dynasty Confucian writer and propagandist, founder of neo-Confucianism
王安石 wáng ān shí Wang Anshi (1021-1086), Song dynasty politician and writer, one of the Eight Giants 唐宋八大家
代写 代寫 dài xiě to write as substitute for sb / a ghost writer / plagiarism
王朔 wáng shuò Wang Shuo (1958-), Chinese writer, director and actor
陶渊明 陶淵明 táo yuān míng Tao Yuanming (c. 365-427), Jin dynasty writer and poet
刘裕 劉裕 liú yù Liu Yu, founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 劉宋|刘宋[Liu2 Song4], broke away from Eastern Jin in 420, reigned as Emperor Wu of Song 宋武帝[Song4 Wu3 di4]
挖坑 wā kēng to dig a hole / (fig.) to make things difficult for sb / (neologism) (slang) (of a writer) to start work on a new project
欧阳修 歐陽修 ōu yáng xiū Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072), Northern Song dynasty prose writer and historian
卡夫卡 kǎ fū kǎ Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
张华 張華 zhāng huà Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention
赵匡胤 趙匡胤 zhào kuāng yìn Zhao Kuangyin, personal name of founding Song emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 (927-976)
徐霞客 xú xiá kè Xu Xiake (1587-1641), Ming dynasty travel writer and geographer, author of Xu Xiake's Travel Diaries 徐霞客遊記|徐霞客游记[Xu2 Xia2 ke4 You2 ji4]
痞子蔡 pǐ zi cài Rowdy Cai (1969-), Taiwanese Internet writer
叶圣陶 葉聖陶 yè shèng táo Ye Shengtao (1894-1988), writer and editor, known esp. for children's books
江平 jiāng píng Jiang Ping (1920-), academic lawyer, writer on ethnicity and legal systems
阿来 阿來 ā lái Alai (1959-), ethnic Tibetan Chinese writer, awarded Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000 for his novel 塵埃落定|尘埃落定[Chen2 ai1 luo4 ding4] "Red Poppies"
谭嗣同 譚嗣同 tán sì tóng Tan Sitong (1865-1898), Qing writer and politician, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
萧红 蕭紅 xiāo hóng Xiao Hong (1911-1942), prominent woman writer, originally from Heilongjiang
刘慈欣 劉慈欣 liú cí xīn Liu Cixin (1963-), Chinese science fiction writer
文宗 wén zōng (literary) writer whose works are venerated as exemplary / eminent writer syn
严复 嚴復 yán fù Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences
莫泊桑 mò bó sāng Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French novelist and short story writer
刘恒 劉恆 liú héng Liu Heng, personal name of Han emperor Han Wendi 漢文帝|汉文帝 / Liu Heng (1954-), Chinese writer
新唐书 新唐書 xīn táng shū History of the Later Tang Dynasty, seventeenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ou1 yang2 Xiu1] and Song Qi 宋祁[Song4 Qi2] in 1060 during Northern Song 北宋[Bei3 Song4], 225 scrolls
萧伯纳 蕭伯納 xiāo bó nà George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish dramatist and writer
李渔 李漁 lǐ yú Li Yu (1611-c. 1680), late Ming and early Qing writer and dramatist
李贽 李贄 lǐ zhì Li Zhi (1527-1602), late Ming philosopher, historian and writer
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]
夏衍 xià yǎn Xia Yan (1900-1995), Chinese writer, playwright, socialist critic and movie pioneer
赛珍珠 賽珍珠 sài zhēn zhū Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate
sòng surname Song / the Song dynasty (960-1279) / Song of the Southern Dynasties (420-479) 南朝宋[Nan2chao2 Song4]
江郎才尽 江郎才盡 jiāng láng cái jìn Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom) / fig. to have used up one's creative powers / to have writer's block
纪伯伦 jì bó lún Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese poet, writer and artist
东坡肉 東坡肉 dōng pō ròu stir-fried pork, favorite of Northern Song writer Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼, a.k.a. Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡
叶永烈 葉永烈 yè yǒng liè Ye Yonglie (1940-), popular science writer
宋书 宋書 sòng shū History of Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4] or Liu Song 劉宋|刘宋[Liu2 Song4], sixth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled by Shen Yue 沈約|沈约[Shen3 Yue1] in 488 during Liang of the Southern Dynasties 南朝梁[Nan2 chao2 Liang2], 100 scrolls / (not to be confused with 宋史[Song4 shi3])
宋濂 sòng lián Song Lian (1310-1381), Ming dynasty writer, historian and politician
沈约 沈約 shěn yuē Shen Yue (441-513), writer and historian during Liang of Southern dynasties 南朝梁, compiler of History of Song of the Southern dynasties 宋書|宋书
遗著 遺著 yí zhù posthumous work (of a writer) syn
曾巩 曾鞏 zēng gǒng Zeng Gong (1019-1083), Song dynasty writer, one of the eight giants 唐宋八大家[Tang2-Song4 ba1da4jia1]
新五代史 xīn wǔ dài shǐ Later History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), nineteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ou1 yang2 Xiu1] in 1053 during Northern Song Dynasty, 74 scrolls
刘义庆 劉義慶 liú yì qìng Liu Yiqing (403-444), writer of South Song Dynasty, compiler and editor of A New Account of the Tales of the World 世說新語|世说新语[Shi4 shuo1 Xin1 yu3]
旧五代史 舊五代史 jiù wǔ dài shǐ History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正[Xue1 Ju1 zheng4] in 974 during Northern Song 北宋[Bei3 Song4], 150 scrolls
陆羽 陸羽 lù yǔ Lu Yu (733-804), Chinese writer from Tang dynasty, known for his obsession with tea
秦牧 qín mù Qin Mu (1919-1992), educator and prolific writer
刘晓波 劉曉波 liú xiǎo bō Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition Charter 2008 零八憲章|零八宪章[Ling2 ba1 Xian4 zhang1], Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2010
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 syn
唱歌 chàng gē to sing a song syn
歌曲 gē qǔ song syn
传奇 傳奇 chuán qí legendary / fantasy saga / romance / short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
流行 liú xíng (of a contagious disease etc) to spread / to propagate / (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular / fashionable syn
歌词 歌詞 gē cí song lyric / lyrics syn
民谣 民謠 mín yáo ballad / folk song syn
曲目 qǔ mù repertoire / program / song / piece of music syn
情歌 qíng gē love song syn
复古 復古 fù gǔ to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration) / to turn back the clock / neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文 / retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s) syn
小调 小調 xiǎo diào xiaodiao, a Chinese folk song genre / minor key (in music) syn
凯歌 凱歌 kǎi gē triumphal hymn / victory song / paean
民歌 mín gē folk song / CL:支[zhi1],首[shou3] syn
名曲 míng qǔ famous song / well-known piece of music
开篇 開篇 kāi piān start of literary work / opening song of ballad in Tanci style 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2] syn
做文章 zuò wén zhāng to make an issue of sth / to fuss / to make a song and dance
传唱 傳唱 chuán chàng to pass on a song syn
高歌 gāo gē to sing loudly / to lift one's voice in song syn
判官 pàn guān magistrate (during Tang and Song dynasties) / mythological underworld judge
古文 gǔ wén old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject syn
五代 wǔ dài Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
绝唱 絕唱 jué chàng most perfect song syn
献丑 獻醜 xiàn chǒu (used self-deprecatingly, e.g. when asked to sing a song) to put one's artistic incompetence on display
歌舞团 歌舞團 gē wǔ tuán song and dance troupe syn
讴歌 謳歌 ōu gē (literary) to celebrate in song / to eulogize syn
恋歌 戀歌 liàn gē love song syn
教头 教頭 jiào tóu sporting coach / military drill master (in Song times) syn
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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