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絕句
Mandarin: jue2 ju4
noun
絕
T6
句
T3
Definitions
  1. 1 jueju, a poem of four lines, each contains five or seven characters, with a strict tonal pattern and rhyme scheme. This quatrain follows the tonal pattern of the first four lines of the lüshi (律詩). This form does not require parallelism. noun
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