| Jueju | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 絕句 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 绝句 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "cut-off lines" | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 絶句 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Hiragana | ぜっく | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Jueju (traditional Chinese: 絕句; simplified Chinese: 绝句; pinyin: juéjù), or Chinese quatrain, is a type of jintishi ("modern form poetry") that grew popular among Chinese poets in the Tang dynasty (618–907), although traceable to earlier origins. Jueju poems are always quatrains; or, more specifically, a matched pair of couplets, with each line consisting of five or seven syllables.[1]
The five-syllable form is called wujue (Chinese: 五絕; pinyin: Wǔjué) and the seven-syllable form qijue (七絕; Qījué).[2]