打油诗

打油詩
dǎyóushī
noun #36,933

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 doggerel
  2. 2 humorous folk verse (often loose-rhyming and colloquial)
  3. 3 limerick-style poem

Examples

HSK 7-9
Tā suíkǒu biān le yī shǒu dǎyóushī dòu dàjiā xiào.
He improvised a piece of doggerel to make everyone laugh.
HSK 7-9
Wǎngshàng liúchuán zhe xǔduō fěngcì shíshì de dǎyóushī.
All sorts of doggerel poems satirising current events circulate online.

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history
Named after the Tang poet Zhang Daoyou (张打油), whose famously crude four-liner about a snowfall ('江上一笼统, 井上黑窟窿…') became the prototype. Today 打油诗 means any deliberately rough, witty verse - not an insult to the form, but a recognised genre.

Stroke Order

yóu
shī