HSK7-9
cí
words
Simplified form of 辭. Alludes to a governance (𤔔) dispute related to criminal law (辛). Based on the original meaning "litigation". The meaning later shifted to "words".
舌 Simplified component
shé
tongue
Shorthand for the 𤔔 component in the traditional character 亂.
辛 Meaning component
xīn
laborious
Clerical script
Regular script
辞 (辭)
words, speech, expression, phrase; to resign; to dismiss; to decline; to take leave; ballad (archaic poetic genre); variant of 詞|词[cí]
辞 (辤)
old variant of 辭|辞[cí]
辞职
to resign
辞
致辞
same as 致詞|致词
告辞
to say goodbye
言辞
Academia Sinica
Make Me a Hanzi
Unicode
CC-CEDICT
SUBTLEX-CH
MTSU Chinese text computing
李学勤《字源》p.1277