烟波江上使人愁

煙波江上使人愁
yānbō jiāng shàng shǐ rén chóu
quotation

Meanings

  1. 1 the mist over the river fills one with sorrow

Examples

HSK 4
Líkāi jiāxiāng duō nián, tā měi cì dúdào " yānbō jiāng shàng shǐ rén chóu " dōu huì xiǎng jiā.
Years away from home, he feels homesick every time he reads 'the mist over the river fills one with sorrow'.

Tips

history
The last line of 崔颢's 《黄鹤楼》, after 日暮乡关何处是: at dusk the traveller on the tower looks for his home and sees only mist over the Yangtze. 烟波 is mist-covered water. A story has 李白 read the poem on the tower and decline to write one of his own.

Stroke Order

烟 yān
波 bō
江 jiāng
上 shàng
使 shǐ
人 rén
愁 chóu