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This poem is a word puzzle.
远看山有色, 近听水无声。
春去花还在，人来鸟不惊。
yuǎn kàn shān yǒu sè, jìn tīng shuǐ wúshēng 。
chūn qù huā hái zài ， rén lái niǎo bù jīng 。
English translation：
View from far away, the mountains have colors; listen closely, water has no sound. Flowers are still blossom even though the spring has gone, and birds are not startled even though people come by.
Vocabulary
| ID | Chinese | Trad. | Pinyin | English Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Chinese | Trad. | Pinyin | English Definition |
| 1 | 远 | 遠 | yuǎn | far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc) |
| 2 | 看 | kan4 | to look after; to take care of; to watch; to guard | |
| 3 | 山 | shān | surname Shan; mountain; hill; anything that resembles a mountain; Classifiers: 座 ; bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons; gable | |
| 4 | 有色 | yǒu sè | colored; non-white; non-ferrous (metals) | |
| 5 | 近 | jìn | near; close to; approximately | |
| 6 | 听 | 聽 | tīng | to listen; to hear; to obey; a can (loanword from English “tin”); classifier for canned beverages |
| 7 | 水 | shuǐ | surname Shui; water; river; liquid; beverage; additional charges or income; (of clothes) classifier for number of washes | |
| 8 | 无声 | 無聲 | wú shēng | noiseless; noiselessly; silent |
| 9 | 春 | 旾 | chūn | old variant of 春 ; surname Chun; spring (time); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life |
| 10 | 去 | qù | to go; to go to (a place); to cause to go or send (sb); to remove; to get rid of; (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; to be apart from in space or time; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation); (of a time or an event etc) just | |
| 11 | 花还 | 花還 | huāhai2 | flowerstill |
| 12 | 在 | zài | (located) at; (to be) in; to exist; in the middle of doing sth; (indicating an action in progress) | |
| 13 | 人 | rén | man; person; people; Classifiers: 个 | |
| 14 | 来 | 來 | lái | to come; to arrive; to come round; ever since; next |
| 15 | 鸟 | 鳥 | niao3 | bird |
| 16 | 不 | bù | (negative prefix); not; no | |
| 17 | 惊 | 驚 | jīng | to startle; to be frightened; to be scared; alarm |
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