zhú lǐ guǎn (by Wang Wei)
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| 竹 | zhú | bamboo |
| 里 | lǐ | Chinese mile; neighborhood |
| 館 or 馆 | guǎn | house; establishment |
| 獨 or 独 | dú | alone; independent; single; sole; only |
| 坐 | zuò | to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc.) |
| 幽 | yōu | quiet; secluded |
| 篁 | huáng | (bamboo); bamboo grove |
| 裡 | lǐ | li, a Chinese unit of length = 1; 2 kilometer; village; within; inside |
| 彈 or 弹 | dàn, tán | crossball; bullet; shot; shell; ball; impeach; to pluck a string; to play (a stringed musical instrument with fingers) |
| 琴 | qín | (mus. instr.) |
| 復 or 复 | fù | again; recover; reply to a letter; to repeat; to duplicate |
| 長 or 长 | cháng, zhǎng | chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; length; long; forever; always; constantly |
| 嘯 or 啸 | xiào | to hiss; to whistle |
| 深 | shēn | deep; profound |
| 林 | lín | woods; forest |
| 人 | rén | man; person; people |
| 不 | bù | (negative prefix); not; no |
| 知 | zhī | to know; to be aware |
| 明 | míng | clear; bright; to understand; next |
| 月 | yuè | moon; month |
| 來 or 来 | lái | to come |
| 相 | xiāng, xiàng | each other; one another; mutually; appearance; portrait; picture |
| 照 | zhào | according to; in accordance with; to shine; to illuminate; to reflect; photograph |
A bamboo neighbourhood house
Only to sit within a secluded bamboo grove
Whistle again a long reply to a letter
A musical shell instrument to know
Profound woodman, no bright clear moon came, illuminate one another
S&A
The great bamboo gardens
Oh, to sit in the quiet bamboo grove
The sound of the gun rings out again and again
At first, a man in the grove is confused
Eventually, understanding comes with the light of the moon
LJW
I sit alone in the quiet bamboo grove
I pluck my qin as the rustling echoes in my ears
What undiscovered woods do I walk lost in?
Maybe, when the bright moon comes, we will understand each other
MAW
The house among the bamboo
Alone I sit in a quiet grove.
My lute whispers and echos through the trees.
Deep in the woods, no one knows where I am
but the bright moon still shines on both of us.
DJW
A house in the bamboo neighbourhood
Sitting alone in a bamboo grove in a secluded village
With the constand sound of music
In the deep woods people have no answers
As they are illuminated by the bright moon
IW
Within the bamboo house
Only within the tranquil bamboo grove
Can the qin forever play
But of this no person can be aware
For there only the shining moon comes