Tu Fu

[ doo foo ]

noun

1. a.d. 712–770, Chinese poet.

Tu Fu

/ ˈduː ˈfuː /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Du Fu

Example Sentences

Then the high time of Chinese poetry gives us a number of greats — to name just a few, moving from around the sixth to the 11th century: Tu Fu, Wang Wei, Han Shan, Li Ho, Po Chu-I.

From New York Times

I remembered the fate of Tu Fu and Li Po— two great poets who had the bitterest lives.

From The New Yorker

New York Review Books had previously published China-related material, from the poetry of Tu Fu to a collection of Simon Leys’s essays about Chinese art and literature called “The Hall of Uselessness,” but thought that more was needed.

From New York Times

The ordeal they undergo, as culled from my own observation in Manchuria and North China and from the press in Nanking, would need a Tu Fu to compass it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tu Fu admired his own admirable verse so much that he recommended it for malarial fever.

From Time Magazine Archive