Kinh Thi

Vietnamese

In the book, Sơ học vấn tân 初學問津 (1888), Kinh Thi is written as 經詩 in the chữ Nôm gloss.

Etymology

kinh +‎ Thi, calque of Chinese 詩經 / 诗经 (Thi kinh), following the head-initial structure of Vietnamese, instead of head-final in the original language.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kïŋ˧˧ tʰi˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kɨn˧˧ tʰɪj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kɨn˧˧ tʰɪj˧˧]

Proper noun

Kinh Thi

1. (literature) the Classic of Poetry (the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry)

Coordinate terms

Tứ thư Ngũ kinh (四書五經, “Four Books and Five Classics”)

Tứ thư (四書, “Four Books”)

• Đại Học (大學, “Great Learning”)
• Trung Dung (中庸, “Doctrine of the Mean”)
• Luận Ngữ (論語, “Analects”)
• Mạnh Tử (孟子, “Mencius”)

Ngũ kinh (五經, “Five Classics”)

• Kinh Thi (經詩, “Classic of Poetry”)
• Kinh Thư (經書, “Book of Documents”)
• Kinh Lễ (經禮, “Book of Rites”)
• Kinh Dịch (經易, “I Ching”)
• Kinh Xuân Thu (經春秋, “Spring and Autumn Annals”)