❀ ❀ ❀s y m b o l s
│ Oblique tone in a prosody table
─ Level tone in a prosody table
△ End rhyme in level tone
▲ End rhyme in oblique tone
◦ Minor pause between a monosyllabic word and a disyllabic compound
in a pentasyllabic or heptasyllabic lineC1.2 Chapter 1, second poem
Chuci Important names, terms, and titles—if they appear in more than one
chapter—are set in boldface at their first appearance in a chapter and
are cross-referenced in the glossary-index.合 A black dot beneath a character indicates that it is pronounced in
the entering tone (characterized by an unaspirated p, t, or k ending)
in Middle Chinese. All entering-tone characters in recent-style shi
poems and in the end rhymes of ci poems have been so identified.
The reconstructed pronunciations of these characters are given in
“Phonetic Transcriptions of Entering-Tone Characters” at the end of
this anthology.