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絶句 ぜっく

  1. becoming speechless; being lost for words
  2. jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

一瞬絶句 いっしゅんぜっく

  1. breaking off short (in one's speech); rendered speechless for a moment

五言絶句 ごごんぜっく

  1. poem of four lines, each of five (Chinese) characters

七言絶句 しちごんぜっく

  1. poem of four lines, each of seven (Chinese) characters

近体 きんたい

  1. modern style

転 てん

  1. change in pronunciation or meaning of a word; sound change; word with an altered pronunciation or meaning
  2. turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)
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