绝句 (絕句) juéjù

juéjù noun jueju; Chinese quatrain
Domain: Literature 文学 , Subdomain: China , Concept: Genre 体裁
Notes: Literally, 'stopped lines,' jueju is a form of jinti shi 近体诗 regulated verse that first arose in the Tang. A jueju poem has four lines, each of five or seven syllables (Guoyu '絕句'; Idema and Haft 1997, p. 124; Wikipedia '绝句')

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