HSK 5 · Media

诗 shī “poem” in Chinese

Traditional 詩

What 诗 means

  1. poem
  2. poetry
  3. verse

Measure word 首 shǒu · 一首诗 yì shǒu shī

How to say 诗

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale诗shī1st tone, high and level

诗 in a sentence

  1. 你觉得这些诗怎么样？

    Nǐ juéde zhèxiē shī zěnmeyàng?

    What do you think of these poems?

    Sentence #4270755 from Tatoeba

  2. 她翻译了一首诗。

    Tā fānyì le yì shǒu shī.

    She translated a poem.

    Sentence #10696122 from Tatoeba

  3. 他的女儿能背诵很多诗。

    Tā de nǚ'ér néng bèisòng hěn duō shī.

    His daughter is able to recite a lot of poems.

    Sentence #867947 from Tatoeba

How 诗 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 诗 (shī) with each of its parts in a different colour
诗shīpoem
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 寺court · sìSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 寺 (sì) hints at the sound. Compare it with shī.

How to write 诗

诗 8 strokes

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诗 (shī) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 诗 (shī). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

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FAQs

诗 (shī) means “poem” or “poetry”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it shī: shī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 诗 is written 詩. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 首 (shǒu). For example, one poem is 一首诗 (yì shǒu shī).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 诗 from the suggestions. Typing shi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
诗 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.