辞

old variant of 辭|辞[ci2]

to resign / to dismiss / to decline / to take leave / ballad (archaic poetic genre) / variant of 詞|词[ci2]

used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"

tongue

surname Xin

(of taste) hot or pungent / hard / laborious / suffering / eighth in order / eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 285° / octa

to leave without saying good-bye

rhetoric

not to be shirked without dishonor (idiom) / incumbent / bounden (duty)

to spare no effort

to make nothing of hardships

to die / to depart from the world forever

humble expression for generous donation

humble expression for generous gift

oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones

to interpret the divinatory trigrams

stern words

to speak forcibly out of a sense of righteousness (idiom)

ten thousand deaths will not prevent me (idiom); ready to risk life and limb to help out

beautiful wordage / also written 麗詞|丽词[li4 ci2]

left speechless by sth perfect (idiom)

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

rhetoric

figure of speech

one-sided words / prejudice / flattery

variant of 冗詞|冗词[rong3 ci2]