出塞

chūsài

verb

Meanings

1 to go out beyond the frontier passes
2 Out to the Frontier, a yuefu poem title, best known from Wang Changling's quatrain

Characters

Examples

HSK 6

王昌龄的《出塞》开头就是“秦时明月汉时关”。

Wáng Chānglíng de 《 Chūsài 》 kāitóu jiù shì " Qín shí míng yuè Hàn shí guān ".

Wang Changling's "Out to the Frontier" opens with the line "the bright moon of Qin, the passes of Han".

HSK 7-9

汉代很多将士出塞和匈奴作战，再也没有回来。

Hàndài hěnduō jiàngshì chūsài hé Xiōngnú zuòzhàn, zàiyě méiyou huílai.

Many Han soldiers went out beyond the passes to fight the Xiongnu and never came back.

Tips

culture

Wang Zhaojun's journey north in 33 BCE to marry the chanyu of the 匈奴 is told as 昭君出塞, Zhaojun goes beyond the frontier, a favorite subject of poems, operas and paintings.

Stroke Order

出 chū

塞 sāi