"Rhyme" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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押韵 yā yùn to rhyme / sometimes written 壓韻|压韵
尾音 wěi yīn final sound of a syllable / rhyme (e.g. in European languages)
韵脚 yùn jiǎo rhyming word ending a line of verse / rhyme
韵 yùn the final (of a syllable) (Chinese phonology) / rhyme / appeal / charm / (literary) pleasant sound
辙 zhé rut / track / rhyme / (dialect) way / method
协韵 xié yùn to rhyme
叶韵 xié yùn to rhyme / also written 協韻|协韵
同韵词 tóng yùn cí words with the same phonetic ending / rhyme
尾韵 wěi yùn rhyme
韵味 yùn wèi implicit charm in rhyme or sound / hinted appeal / interest
儿歌 ér gē nursery rhyme
歌谣 gē yáo folksong / ballad / nursery rhyme
口诀 kǒu jué mnemonic chant / rhyme for remembering (arithmetic tables, character stroke order etc)
和 hè to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence / to join in the singing / to chime in with others
韵律 yùn lu:4 cadence / rhythm / rhyme scheme / meter (in verse) / (linguistics) prosody
语无伦次 yǔ wú lún cì incoherent speech / to talk without rhyme or reason (idiom)
童谣 tóng yáo nursery rhyme
好端端 hǎo duān duān perfectly all right / without rhyme or reason
七律 qī lu:4 abbr. for 七言律詩|七言律诗, verse form consisting of 8 lines of 7 syllables, with rhyme on alternate lines
音韵 yīn yùn music / rhyme and rhythm / initial, 音[yin1], and final and tone, 韻|韵[yun4], of a Chinese character / phoneme
无由 wú yóu to be unable (to do sth) / no reason to ... / without rhyme or reason
格律 gé lu:4 forms of versification / conventions regarding set number of words and lines, choice of tonal patterns and rhyme schemes for various types of Classical Chinese poetic composition / metrical verse
音韵学 yīn yùn xué Chinese phonetics (concerned also with rhyme in poetry)
反切 fǎn qiè traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone
七言律诗 qī yán lu:4 shī verse form consisting of 8 lines of 7 syllables, with rhyme on alternate lines / abbr. to 七律
次韵 cì yùn reply to a poem in the same rhyme
转韵 zhuǎn yùn change of rhyme (within a poem)
韵书 yùn shū rime dictionary (ancient type of Chinese dictionary that collates characters by tone and rhyme rather than by radical)
韵目 yùn mù rhyme entry / subdivision of a rhyming dictionary (containing all words with the given rhyme)
韵调 yùn diào rhyme and tone / intonation
龙龛手鉴 Lóng kān Shǒu jiàn Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical
联绵词 lián mián cí two-syllable word featuring alliteration or rhyme, such as 玲瓏|玲珑[ling2 long2]
大韵 dà yùn rhyme group (group of characters that rhyme, in rhyme books)
小韵 xiǎo yùn homophone group (group of homophone characters, in a rhyme book)
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