词

cí

word

statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝[Song4 chao2] (CL:首[shou3])

speech (讠) + sound (司) = word or lyric

The speech radical (讠) carries the meaning: this is a unit of language. 司 contributes the sound cí and nothing more.

讠+司→词
司To managePhonetic
讠SpeechSemantic

这个词的意思我不太懂。

zhè ge cí de yì si wǒ bù tài dǒng。

I don't quite understand the meaning of this word.

他花了很长时间才学会背这首词。

tā huā le hěn cháng shí jiān cái xué huì bèi zhè shǒu cí。

It took him a very long time to learn to recite this ci poem.

Words with 词

微词

wēi cí

veiled criticism

唱词

chàng cí

libretto; lyrics

词话

cí huà

form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty

冠词

guàn cí

article (in grammar)

词性

cí xìng

part of speech (noun, verb, adjective etc)

词眼

cí yǎn

key word

语气助词

yǔ qì zhù cí

modal particle

连缀动词

lián zhuì dòng cí

linking verb

连接词

lián jiē cí

conjunction

连绵词

lián mián cí

variant of 聯綿詞|联绵词[lian2 mian2 ci2]

连系词

lián xì cí

copula (linguistics)

连词

lián cí

conjunction

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