詩

し · shi · JLPT N3 · noun

poem

📜 詩 = 言 (words) + 寺 (temple): words kept in a temple

The left side 言 means speech or words; the right side 寺 (temple) mainly gives the sound shi. Sound hook: a poem is what SHE wrote, said shi. Same reading appears in 詩人 (shijin), poet = poem + person.

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