Illustration: On the veranda of a modest Edo-period home, a poet watches a frog land beside a rain-filled stone basin. A fresh narrow sheet for a poem rests across a low writing board, with its surface turned away from view.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

詠よむ

yomu

to compose a poem

For composing poetry; 読む means “to read.” Note written by AI.

Example sentences

その詩しは無名むめいの著者ちょしゃが詠よんだ。
The poem was composed by an anonymous author.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
太子たいしは次つぎの歌うたを詠よんだ。
Shotoku Taishi composed a poem as below.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
和歌わかを詠よむ人ひとのことを歌人かじんという。
The people who compose Waka are called Kajin poets.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 詠

詠recitation; poemOnエイKunよむ・うたう

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