词
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word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝[Song4 chao2] (CL:首[shou3])
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 言 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 詞
- Common rank
- #226
- Unicode
- U+8BCD
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
word · Heisig RSH #1392
言 say + 司 take charge of
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 词
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一面之词 | one side of the story; one-sided statement | |
| 生词语 | vocabulary words (in language-learning books); new or unfamiliar words | |
| 不可数名词 | uncountable noun (in grammar of European languages) | |
| 不定词 | infinitive | |
| 词人 | writer of 詞|词[ci2] (a kind of Classical Chinese poem); person of literary talent | |
| 语气词 | modal particle | |
| 词头 | prefix; headword (in a dictionary) | |
| 发语词 | introductory particle (used at the beginning of a sentence or passage in Classical Chinese… | |
| 生词 | new word (in textbook); word that is unfamiliar or not yet studied; CL:組|组[zu3],個|个[ge4] | |
| 生词本 | vocabulary notebook | |
| 词性 | part of speech (noun, verb, adjective etc); lexical category | |
| 动名词 | gerund | |
| 动词 | verb | |
| 合成词 | compound word | |
| 多义词 | polyseme; polysemous word | |
| 物主代词 | possessive pronoun | |
| 分词 | participle; word segmentation | |
| 可数名词 | countable noun (in grammar of European languages) | |
| 词法 | morphology (linguistics); word formation and inflection | |
| 文词 | variant of 文辭|文辞[wen2 ci2] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 司 — compare how they read.