Chinese educational poem that uses exactly 1,000 characters, each appearing once
Thousand Character Classic
A calligraphic work titled An Authentic "Thousand Character Classic", Song dynasty
Chinese name
Chinese
千字文
Hanyu Pinyin
Qiānzì Wén
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Qiānzì Wén
Bopomofo
ㄑㄧㄢ ㄗˋ ㄨㄣˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Chiantzyh Wen
Wade–Giles
Chʻien1 Tzŭ4 Wên2
Yale Romanization
Chyāndz̀ Wén
IPA
[tɕʰjɛ́n.tsɹ̩̂ wə̌n]
Wu
Romanization
Tshie zy ven
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Chīnjih Màhn
Jyutping
Cin1zi6 Man4
IPA
[tsʰiːn˥.tsiː˨ mɐn˩]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Chhian-jī-bûn
Tâi-lô
Tshian-jī-bûn
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese
t͡sʰen d͡zɨH mɨun
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet
Thiên tự văn
Chữ Hán
千字文
Korean name
Hangul
천자문
Hanja
千字文
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization
Cheonjamun
McCune–Reischauer
Ch'ŏnjamun
Japanese name
Kanji
千字文
Kana
せんじもん
Transcriptions
Romanization
Senjimon
Thousand Character Classic used as style dictionary : each character is given in different styles in each column Japanese book of 1756
The Thousand Character Classic (Chinese: 千字文; pinyin: Qiānzì Wén), also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four characters apiece and grouped into four line rhyming stanzas to make it easy to memorize. It is sung, much as children learning the Latin alphabet sing an "alphabet song." Along with the Three Character Classic and the Hundred Family Surnames, it formed the basis of traditional literacy training in the Sinosphere.
The first line is Tian di xuan huang (traditional Chinese: 天地玄黃; simplified Chinese: 天地玄黄; pinyin: Tiāndì xuán huáng; Jyutping: tin1 dei6 jyun4 wong4; lit. 'Heaven and Earth Dark and Yellow') and the last line, Yan zai hu ye (焉哉乎也; Yān zāi hū yě; yin1 zoi1 fu4 jaa5) explains the use of the grammatical particles "yan", "zai", "hu", and "ye".[1]
^Paar (1963), p. 7, 36.
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