Chinese Character Wiki
詞

cí

words

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 司 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

司 sound component

司  Sound component

sī

  

take charge of

Evolution

詞 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
詞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
詞 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
詞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

词 (詞) 

cí

words; phrase, expression; word; statement; speech; lyrics; CL:組|组[zǔ],個|个[gè]; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝|宋朝[Sòng​cháo]; CL:首[shǒu]

Most common words with 詞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

词

word

台词

dialogue

歌词

song lyric

证词

testimony

单词

word

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*sə.lə

zi

cí

utterance


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 46.4841% of movies

815th most common character in movies

959th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

词

Unicode

U+8A5E

Shuowen

“詞，意內而言外也。从司，从言。”


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