哀江南赋

Traditional form:

哀江南賦

Pinyin (reading):

Aī Jiāngnánfù

Definitions:

• Lament for the South, long poem in Fu style by Yu Xin 庾信 mourning the passing of Liang of the Southern dynasties 南朝梁朝

Characters:

• 哀 - sad, mournful, pitiful; to pity; to grieve
• 江 - large river; the Yangtze; surname
• 南 - south; southern; southward
• 赋 - tax; to give, to bestow

Traditional characters:

• 哀 - sad, mournful, pitiful; to pity; to grieve
• 江 - large river; the Yangtze; surname
• 南 - south; southern; southward
• 賦 - tax; to give, to bestow