辞 cí

words, speech, expression, phrase

HSK 5 #1469

DEFINITIONS

  • words, speech, expression, phrase
  • old variant of 辭|辞[ci2]
  • to resign
  • to dismiss
  • to decline
  • to take leave
  • ballad (archaic poetic genre)
  • variant of 詞|词[ci2]

STROKES

WORDS

振振有辞 zhèn zhèn yǒu cí to speak forcefully and with justice (idiom); to argue with the courage of one's convictions; also written 振振有詞|振振有词
挽辞 wǎn cí an elegy; elegiac words
措辞强硬 cuò cí qiáng yìng strongly-worded
敬辞 jìng cí term of respect; honorific title; honorific (in grammar)
楚辞 chǔ cí Chu Ci, the Songs of Chu (ancient book of poems, collected during Han but esp. from country of Chu c. 500 BC)
欲加之罪，何患无辞 yù jiā zhī zuì ， hé huàn wú cí If you want to condemn sb, don't worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左傳|左传); one can always trump up a charge against sb; Give a dog a bad name, then hang him.
发语辞 fā yǔ cí literary auxiliary particle, comes at the beginning of a sentence
义正辞严 yì zhèng cí yán to speak forcibly out of a sense of righteousness (idiom)
万死不辞 wàn sǐ bù cí ten thousand deaths will not prevent me (idiom); ready to risk life and limb to help out
袖珍辞典 xiù zhēn cí diǎn pocket dictionary
裸辞 luǒ cí to quit one's job (without having another one)
请辞 qǐng cí to ask sb to resign from a post
谀辞 yú cí flattering words
谦辞 qiān cí humble words; self-deprecatory expression; to modestly decline
讲辞 jiǎng cí lectures
赞辞 zàn cí praise
辞任 cí rèn to resign (a position)
辞官 cí guān to resign a government post
辞书 cí shū dictionary; encyclopedia
辞书学 cí shū xué lexicography
辞格 cí gé figure of speech
辞灶 cí zào see 送灶[song4 Zao4]
辞章 cí zhāng poetry and prose; rhetoric
辞谢 cí xiè to decline gratefully
辩辞 biàn cí an excuse
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