Jueju

Jueju
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese絕句
Simplified Chinese绝句
Literal meaning"cut-off lines"
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinjuéjù
Wade–Gileschüeh2-chü4
IPA[tɕɥětɕŷ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanizationjyuht-geui
Jyutpingzyut6-geoi3
Southern Min
Tâi-lôtsua̍t-kù
Japanese name
Kanji絶句
Hiraganaぜっく
Transcriptions
Romanizationzekku

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]

  1. ^ Tian 2007, p. 143.
  2. ^ Egan 2007, pp. 199–201.