Chinese Character Wiki
辞

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".

Components
舌 simplified component

舌  Simplified component

shé

  

tongue

Shorthand for the 𤔔 component in the traditional character 亂.

辛 meaning component

辛  Meaning component

xīn

  

laborious

Evolution

辞 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
辞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

辞 (辭) 

cí

words, speech, expression, phrase; to resign; to dismiss; to decline; to take leave; ballad (archaic poetic genre); variant of 詞|词[cí]

辞 (辤) 

cí

old variant of 辭|辞[cí]

Most common words with 辞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

辞职

to resign

辞

to resign

致辞

same as 致詞|致词

告辞

to say goodbye

言辞

words

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 20.5831% of movies

1433rd most common character in movies

1469th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

辭

Unicode

U+8F9E


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