Chinese Character Wiki
词

cí

words

Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 司 represents the sound. Simplified form of 詞.

Components
讠 meaning component

讠  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

司 sound component

司  Sound component

sī

  

take charge of

Evolution

词 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
词 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
词 Simplified script Modern

Simplified 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]

词 (䛐) 

cí

old variant of 詞|词[cí]

Most common words with 词
Freq.
Word
Meaning

词

word

台词

dialogue

歌词

song lyric

证词

testimony

单词

word

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 46.4841% of movies

815th most common character in movies

959th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

詞

Unicode

U+8BCD


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