词

詞

cí

noun HSK 2 #929

Meanings

Speech radical 讠+ 司 (to manage) — managing speech into organized words

Zhège cí shì shénme yìsi?

What does this word mean?

Wǒ měitiān xué shí gè xīn cí.

I learn ten new words every day.

Zhè shǒu gē de cí xiě de hěn hǎo.

The lyrics of this song are well written.

history

词 also refers to a classical Chinese poetry form from the Song Dynasty (宋词, Sòng cí), where poems were written to fit musical tunes.

usage

字 (zì) = single character, 词 (cí) = word (often 2+ characters). 生词 (shēngcí) = new vocabulary word.

词 cí