詞
cí HSK2

words

词 詞 cí
variant 䛐
word noun
a single unit of language with a fixed meaning and pronunciation that can be used independently; term; vocabulary item

态度这个词我不喜欢。

tài​du zhè​ge cí wǒ bù xǐ​huan.

I don’t like the word attitude.

让我们从“家”这个词开始。

ràng wǒ​men cóng“ jiā” zhè​ge cí kāi​shǐ.

Let’s start with the word “home.”

speech nounverb
statement; words; things spoken or written, such as a script, speech, or legal statement
lyrics noun
words to a song or opera
ci poetry noun
a classical form of lyric poetry consisting of lines of irregular length, set to music; it originated in the Tang Dynasty and flourished during the Song Dynasty

Cross-References

Classifier

Same as

Synonym

Has erhua variant

Referenced by

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
959th most common 174.0 per million
Movie subtitles
815th most common 153.2 per million appears in 46% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
99.3 per million appears in 29% of films
Written text
57.6 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Simplified
词
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+8A5E

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)