对联 duìlián▶ Câu đối

Stroke order

对联 is written in 17 strokes across 2 characters.

• 对 — 5 strokes
• 联 — 12 strokes

Senses

1. rhyming couplet
2. pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway

Related words

• 对付giải quyết
• 对应Tương ứng
• 对抗Chiến đấu; trận chiến
• 对照so sánh; đối chiếu
• 对称đối xứng
• 对立Sự đối lập; phe đối lập

对联 is pronounced duìlián and means “Câu đối”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 对联 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.