詩話

詩話

Chinese

		poem; poetry; verse	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (詩話)		詩	話
simp. (诗话)		诗	话

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shīhuà

  (Zhuyin): ㄕ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ waa⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): si-ōe / si-ōa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shīhuà
    • Zhuyin: ㄕ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhuah
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ waa⁶
    • Yale: sī wah
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ waa⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ wa⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ wäː²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si-ōe
    • Tâi-lô: si-uē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: si'oe
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕi³³ ue⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕi⁴⁴⁻²² ue²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si-ōa
    • Tâi-lô: si-uā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: si'oa
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɕi⁴⁴⁻²² ua²²/

Noun

詩話

1. poetry talks, such as informal remarks on poetry or poets, a literary genre very popular with the Song and Ming scholars, usually telling why certain famous lines were written and under what circumstances
2. vernacular stories interspersed with poems