诗
shī · HSK 4
poem
📜 言 (speech) + 寺 (temple) — words from the temple = poetry
The left side 言 means speech or words; the right side 寺 is a temple. Together: refined words spoken at the temple, i.e. poetry or verse. 寺 also lends the shī sound.
诗 — speech radical 讠 + temple 寺
诗 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 讠 (speech) signals meaning related to language or words, while 寺 (temple/office) provides the sound. Originally referring to chanted verse and ritual songs, it came to mean 'poetry' broadly.