詩話

Chinese

		poem; poetry; verse	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (詩話)		詩	話
simp. (诗话)		诗	话

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shīhuà

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄏㄨㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ waa⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): si-ōe / si-ōa

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shīhuà
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄏㄨㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shihhuà
  - Wade–Giles: shih¹-hua⁴
  - Yale: shr̄-hwà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhuah
  - Palladius: шихуа (šixua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: si¹ waa⁶
  - Yale: sī wah
  - Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ waa⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ wa⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ waː²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si-ōe
  - Tâi-lô: si-uē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: si'oe
  - IPA (Xiamen): /si⁴⁴⁻²² ue²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /si³³ ue⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si-ōa
  - Tâi-lô: si-uā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: si'oa
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /si⁴⁴⁻²² ua²²/

Noun

詩話

poetry talks, such as informal remarks on poetry or poets, a literary genre very popular with the Song and Ming scholars, usually telling why certain famous lines were written and under what circumstances
vernacular stories interspersed with poems