词 (詞) cí

  1. cí noun a word
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of the smallest grammatical unit in natural language (CC-CEDICT '詞'; CCD '词' 1; Guoyu '詞' n 1; HSK '词' 1; Unihan '詞')
  2. cí noun a grammatical particle
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
  3. cí 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 (CC-CEDICT '詞'; CCD '词' 2; FE '詞' 4; Guoyu '詞' n 4; HSK '词' 3; Idema and Haft 1997, p. 141; Kroll 2015 '詞' 2, p. 64)
  4. cí noun works; phrases; diction
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '詞'; CCD '词' 1; FE '詞' 1; Guoyu '詞' n 3; HSK '词' 2; Kroll 2015 '詞' 1, p. 64; Unihan '詞')
  5. cí verb to talk; to speak
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (FE '詞' 3)

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词汇单位 、 绝妙好词 、 动名词 、 词素 、 词人 、 词汇学 、 同源词 、 词谱 、 词文 、 前属词 、 词频 、 功能动词

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