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対句 (ついく) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

対つい句く

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Meanings

1

couplet; antithetical phrase

Refers to a pair of phrases or lines that are parallel or contrasting in structure and meaning, often used in poetry or rhetoric.

漢かん詩しでは対つい句くがよく使つかわれる。
Couplets are often used in Chinese poetry.

Kanji

対vis-a-vis, opposite, even
句phrase, clause, sentence

Related words

対ついN2
対句 is the precise literary term for parallel or antithetical phrasing, while 対 alone can loosely refer to the same balanced contrast in a more general sense.

Etymology

From 対 (pair, opposite) and 句 (phrase, clause). The term is used in classical Chinese poetry and rhetoric to describe a pair of lines that are structurally parallel or antithetical.

この文ぶん章しょうには美うつくしい対つい句くが含ふくまれている。

This passage contains a beautiful antithetical phrase.