sù jiàn dé jiāng (by Meng Haoran)
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| 宿 | sù, xiǔ, xiù | lodge for the night; old; former; constellation; (a) night |
| 建 | jiàn | to establish; to found; to set up; to build; to construct |
| 德 | dé | Germany; virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favor; character; kind |
| 江 | jiāng | river |
| 移 | yí | to move; to shift; to change; to alter; to remove |
| 舟 | zhōu | boat |
| 泊 | bó | to anchor; touch at; to moor |
| 煙 | yān | cigarette; tobacco; smoke |
| 渚 | zhǔ | islet; bank |
| 日 | rì | Japan; day; sun; date; day of the month |
| 暮 | mù | evening; sunset |
| 客 | kè | customer; visitor; guest |
| 愁 | chóu | worry about |
| 新 | xīn | meso- (chem.); new; newly |
| 野 | yě | field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; wild |
| 曠 or 旷 | kuàng | waste; wilderness |
| 天 | tiān | day; sky; heaven |
| 低 | dī | to lower (one's head); to let droop; to hang down; low; to incline; beneath; low |
| 樹 or 树 | shù | tree |
| 江 | jiāng | river |
| 清 | qīng | clear; distinct; complete; pure |
| 月 | yuè | moon; month |
| 近 | jìn | near; close (to); approximately |
| 人 | rén | man; person; people |
On the construction of the Rhine
The boat moves at anchor by the islet, like cigar-smoke
The new visitor fm Japan worries
He hides from the wilderness of the sky under a tree
The river has been ethnically cleansed for almost a month
MAW
A Building on the River Dee
The boat anchors in the misty bay
The question is, where to build an inn?
There is only wilderness underneath this sky here;
But for the past month of sailing, people have crowded the riverbanks.
LJW
A night on the river
The moving boat was anchored in the foggy inlet
Evening had come, like a worried guest
Under the vast sky, a weeping willow
reaches down to the pure water.
IW
The boat moves down the river
to find a safe anchorage for the evening
a newcomer to this border between the wilderness and the sky
where a tree droops in the moonlight
CMW
Night on the Jiande river
A traveller moors his boat by a misty riverbank
The sunset brings him new worries
The night sky seems to hang low over the trees,
And the moon's reflection in the clear water is close by.
DJW