pái

technical
literary

Meaning of 词牌

词牌 means fixed tune name or melodic pattern of a ci poem. Pronounced cí pái.

  • fixed tune name or melodic pattern of a ci poem

Definitions & Examples

 
西
jiāng
yuè
 
shì
hěn
zhù
míng
de
pái
 

Moon over the West River is a very famous ci tune pattern.

rén
àn
zhào
pái
de
lái
tián
 

A ci poet must compose poems according to the metrical rules of the tune pattern.

Zhè
shǒu
yòng
le
 
Dié
liàn
huā
 
de
pái
 

This ci poem uses the tune pattern Butterflies in Love with Flowers.

Xué
diǎn
shī
 
liǎo
jiě
pái
hěn
zhòng
yào
 

When studying classical poetry, understanding ci tune patterns is very important.

tóng
de
pái
 
shì
shù
dōu
tóng
 

Different ci tune patterns have different sentence structures and character counts.

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