漢かん詩し

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Meanings

Refers to classical Chinese poetry (often Tang or Song dynasty) composed following Chinese prosodic rules, as distinct from Japanese waka or haiku. Can mean the genre or an individual poem.

彼かれは趣しゅ味みで漢かん詩しを作つくっている。
He composes Chinese poems as a hobby.
この漢かん詩しは李り白はくの代だい表ひょう作さくの一ひとつだ。
This Chinese poem is one of Li Bai's representative works.

Usage patterns

漢かん詩しを詠よむto compose/recite a Chinese poem
彼かれは酒さけを飲のみながら漢かん詩しを詠よんだ。
He composed a Chinese poem while drinking sake.
漢かん詩しを作つくるto write/compose a Chinese poem
学がく生せいたちは授じゅ業ぎょうで漢かん詩しを作つくる練れん習しゅうをした。
The students practiced writing Chinese poems in class.

Kanji

漢Sino-, China
詩poem, poetry

Related words

和わ歌かN1
和歌 is classical Japanese 31-syllable poetry, while 漢詩 is classical Chinese poetry written in Chinese or following Chinese prosodic rules.
俳はい句くN2
俳句 is a short 5-7-5 syllable Japanese poem, whereas 漢詩 is longer and follows Chinese poetic forms.
詩しN2
漢詩 names classical Chinese-style poetry specifically, which is exactly the narrower sense that 詩 can take in sense 2.

Don't confuse with

漢かん文ぶんN1
漢文 refers to classical Chinese prose or writing in general, while 漢詩 specifically means Chinese poetry.
和わ歌かN1
和歌 is native Japanese-style verse, whereas 漢詩 is poetry composed in Chinese style and often in Chinese characters following Chinese rules.

Etymology

Compound of 漢 (kan, 'China, Chinese') and 詩 (shi, 'poetry, poem'). The term has been used in Japanese since the Heian period to distinguish Chinese-style poetry from native Japanese forms.