1 to sing a song

1 song

2 classifier: 支 zhī

3 classifier: 首 shǒu

4 to sing

1 female singer (archaic)

1 song

1 nine-tailed fox (mythological creature)

1 lit. you can sing or you can cry (idiom); fig. deeply moving

2 happy and sad

3 inspiring and tragic

1 lit. head in Wu and tail in Chu (idiom); fig. close together

2 head-to-tail

3 one thing starts where the other leaves off

1 lit. on all sides, the songs of Chu (idiom)

2 fig. surrounded by enemies, isolated and without help

1 lit. would rather be a chicken's head than a phoenix's tail (idiom)

2 fig. to prefer to be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond

1 lit. sing to accompany wine (idiom); fig. life is short, make merry while you can