词

old variant of 詞|词[ci2]

word / statement / speech / lyrics / CL:組|组[zu3],個|个[ge4] / a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝|宋朝[Song4 chao2] / CL:首[shou3]

surname Si

to take charge of / to manage / department (under a ministry)

"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

confession / statement / Taiwan pr. [gong1 ci2]

pronoun / synonym / byword

pronoun

preposition

all of one voice / unanimous

forceful (criticism etc) / to use strong words

indefinite article (e.g. English a, an)

personal pronoun

preposition

traditional parts of speech (grammar)

proper noun

technical term / proper noun

beautiful wordage / also written 麗辭|丽辞[li4 ci2]

one side of the story / one-sided statement

don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say

intransitive verb

uncountable noun (in grammar of European languages)

infinitive

to keep silent / to make no comment

subject