DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

離騷

简离骚 · 繁離騷

Mandarin · pinyin Lí Sāo

On Encountering Sorrow, poem by Qu Yuan 屈原 Qū Yuán in Songs of Chu 楚辭 Chǔ cí

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

離: Look up this written character
騷: Look up this written character
离: lí · rare beast; strange; elegant
骚: sāo · harass, bother, annoy, disturb

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–1 · Li2 Sao1

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

2character links2source references

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

離騷 · find source passages ↗ · 离骚 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗