| │ | Oblique tone in a prosody table |
| ─ | Level tone in a prosody table |
| △ | End rhyme in level tone |
| ▲ | End rhyme in oblique tone |
| ° | Minor pause between a monosyllabic word and a disyllabic compound in a pentasyllabic or heptasyllabic line |
| C1.2 | Chapter 1, second poem |
| Chuci | Important names, terms, and titles—if they appear in more than one chapter—are set in boldface at their first appearance in a chapter and are cross-referenced in the glossary-index. |
 | A black dot beneath a character indicates that it is pronounced in the entering tone (characterized by an unaspirated p, t, or k ending) in Middle Chinese. All entering-tone characters in recent-style shi poems and in the end rhymes of ci poems have been so identified. The reconstructed pronunciations of these characters are given in “Phonetic Transcriptions of Entering-Tone Characters” at the end of this anthology. |
