Rhyme reference

Explore rhyme groups and characters, look up words and allusions, and find references for your verse.

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Level tones are red; oblique tones are blue. Entering tones are bold with a dotted underline. Scroll through entries; hover for the rhyme group or select a character to find words.

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2403 rhyme entries

Source: Couyun · MIT

Tools for Chinese poetry

Pingshui is commonly used for regulated verse and Cilin for ci. Xinyun and Tongyun follow modern Mandarin. Their rhyme groups and tone systems are not interchangeable; modern pinyin cannot determine historical rhymes.