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辞
辭
cí
1.
to resign
2.
to dismiss
3.
to decline
4.
to take leave
5.
ballad (archaic poetic genre)
6.
variant of [[詞|词<cí>]]
Very Common • Top 4%
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
修辞
xiūcí
rhetoric
偏辞
piāncí
one-sided words
冗辞
rǒngcí
variant of [[冗詞|冗词<rǒngcí>]]
卜辞
bǔcí
oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones
卦辞
guàcí
to interpret the divinatory trigrams
告辞
gàocí
to say goodbye
哀辞
āicí
dirge
严辞
yáncí
stern words
婉辞
wǎncí
tactful expression
寄辞
jìcí
to send a message
彖辞
tuàncí
to interpret the divinatory trigrams
悼辞
dàocí
variant of [[悼詞|悼词<dàocí>]]
恳辞
kěncí
to decline with sincere thanks
托辞
tuōcí
pretext
挽辞
wǎncí
an elegy
推辞
tuīcí
to decline (an appointment, invitation etc)
措辞
cuòcí
wording
敬辞
jìngcí
term of respect
文辞
wéncí
language
楚辞
Chǔcí
Chu Ci, the Songs of Chu (ancient book of poems, collected during Han but esp. from country of Chu c. 500 BC)
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Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 5
- Character Frequency Rank
- 1,468
- Word Frequency Rank
- 3,637 of 84,292