Sinograph Addenda · Signs
poem
| Name | poem |
|---|---|
| Reads | shī |
| Means | poem, song; the Odes |
| Taught in | 06 · The one who, the thing which |
Where it comes from
Speech 言 with a phonetic at its side — the classic build: song is speech given shape. As a title, 詩 is the Book of Odes, the three hundred songs that every educated voice could quote — the course met them as 詩三百 before it could even read the word 詩 itself. Taught in the one-who chapter.
How to remember it
Speech 言 measured and set — words that keep time: a poem.
In the wild
urn:nabu:kanripo:KR1h0004:016:19a · license: attribution.