词 (詞)

  1. noun a word
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of the smallest grammatical unit in natural language (CCD '词' 1; HSK '词' 1)
  2. noun a grammatical particle
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
  3. noun ci poetry
    Domain: Literature 文学 , Subdomain: China , Concept: Genre 体裁
    Notes: In this sense, 词 is a genre of Chinese poetry dating from the Tang intended as lyrics for songs. 词 is an abbreviation for 曲子词, or song lyrics, although we mostly do not know how they were intended to be sung now (Idema and Haft 1997, p. 141; CCD '词' 2; FE '詞' 4; HSK '词' 3).
  4. noun works; phrases; diction
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (CCD '词' 1; FE '詞' 1; HSK '词' 2)
  5. verb to talk; to speak
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (FE '詞' 3)

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