particle #3,527

Meanings

  1. 1 (literary particle, used in poetry)
  2. 2 (exclamatory particle in classical Chinese)

Examples

Lù mànmàn qí xiū yuǎn xī.
The road ahead is long and winding. (Qu Yuan)
Dà fēng qǐ xī yún fēiyáng.
A great wind rises, clouds fly and scatter. (Liu Bang)

Tips

history
is an exclamatory particle from classical Chinese, famously used by the poet 屈原 (Qū Yuán) in his work (Lísāo). It adds rhythm and emotion to verse.
register
is archaic and only appears in classical poetry, literary quotations, or deliberately poetic modern writing. It is not used in everyday speech.

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