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约客

約客
Yuēkè
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 The Invited Guest, Zhao Shixiu's quatrain about waiting for a friend who never comes

Examples

HSK 6
读赵师秀的《约客》，好像能听到诗人独自敲棋子的声音。
Dú Zhào Shīxiù de 《 Yuēkè 》, hǎoxiàng néng tīngdào shīrén dúzì qiāo qízǐ de shēngyīn.
Reading Zhao Shixiu's 'The Invited Guest', you can almost hear the poet tapping chess pieces all alone.
HSK 7-9
《约客》写的是诗人在下雨的夜里等朋友来下棋。
《 Yuēkè 》 xiě de shì shīrén zài xiàyǔ de yèli děng péngyou lái xiàqí.
'The Invited Guest' is about a poet waiting on a rainy night for a friend to come and play chess.

Tips

culture
The whole poem: 黄梅时节家家雨，青草池塘处处蛙。有约不来过夜半，闲敲棋子落灯花。 'In plum-rain season it rains on every house; by every green pond the frogs call. The friend I asked has not come, and it is past midnight; idly I tap the chess pieces, and the charred wick drops from the lamp.' 赵师秀 (1170–1219) was one of the Four Lings of Yongjia, a group of Southern Song poets.

Stroke Order

约 yuē
客 kè