Pingshui Yun

The Pingshui Rhyming Scheme (Chinese: 平水韻; pinyin: Píngshǔi Yùn; lit. 'Level Water Rhyme') is a rhyming system of the Middle Chinese language. Compiled in the Jin dynasty, Pingshui Yun is one of the most popular rhyming systems in Chinese poetry after the Tang dynasty and the official standard in later dynasties.[1][2]

  1. ^ Yong, Heming; Peng, Jing (2008), Chinese lexicography: a history from 1046 BC to AD 1911, Oxford University Press, p. 324, ISBN 978-0-19-156167-2.
  2. ^ Hartmann, R.R.K. (2003). Lexicography: Reference works across time, space and languages. London: Routledge. p. 164. ISBN 9780415253659.