Sinograph Addenda · Signs

詩poem · shī · poem, song; the Odes

poem

Where it comes from

Speech 言speech · yán · speech, words; to speak with a phonetic at its side — the classic build: song is speech given shape. As a title, 詩poem · shī · poem, song; the Odes is the Book of Odes, the three hundred songs that every educated voice could quote — the course met them as 詩poem · shī · poem, song; the Odes三three · sān · three; several百hundred · bǎi · hundred; the many before it could even read the word 詩poem · shī · poem, song; the Odes itself. Taught in the one-who chapter.

How to remember it

Speech 言speech · yán · speech, words; to speak measured and set — words that keep time: a poem.

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