词

word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝[Song4 chao2] (CL:首[shou3])

7 strokes Dict coverage rank #226 U+8BCD

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

讠 (semantic, “words”) + 司 (phonetic, sī)

components: 讠司

word · Heisig RSH #1392

言 say + 司 take charge of

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 司

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 司 (sī) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
司 sound component	sī	to take charge of, to control, to manage; officer
饲	sì	to raise animals; to nourish, to feed
嗣	sì	to connect; to inherit; descendants, heirs
祠	cí	ancestral temple; to sacrifice
伺	sì	to serve, to wait upon, to attend; to examine
笥	sì	hamper, wicker basket

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
一面之词	yī miàn zhī cí	one side of the story; one-sided statement
生词语	shēng cí yǔ	vocabulary words (in language-learning books); new or unfamiliar words
不可数名词	bù kě shǔ míng cí	uncountable noun (in grammar of European languages)
不定词	bù dìng cí	infinitive
词人	cí rén	writer of 詞\|词[ci2] (a kind of Classical Chinese poem); person of literary talent
语气词	yǔ qì cí	modal particle
词头	cí tóu	prefix; headword (in a dictionary)
发语词	fā yǔ cí	introductory particle (used at the beginning of a sentence or passage in Classical Chinese…
生词	shēng cí	new word (in textbook); word that is unfamiliar or not yet studied; CL:組\|组[zu3],個\|个[ge4]
生词本	shēng cí běn	vocabulary notebook
词性	cí xìng	part of speech (noun, verb, adjective etc); lexical category
动名词	dòng míng cí	gerund
动词	dòng cí	verb
合成词	hé chéng cí	compound word
多义词	duō yì cí	polyseme; polysemous word
物主代词	wù zhǔ dài cí	possessive pronoun
分词	fēn cí	participle; word segmentation
可数名词	kě shǔ míng cí	countable noun (in grammar of European languages)
词法	cí fǎ	morphology (linguistics); word formation and inflection
文词	wén cí	variant of 文辭\|文辞[wen2 ci2]