词 (cí) means Word. Below are 24 of the 33 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
学好 词 汇很重要。
Xué hǎo cíhuì hěn zhòngyào.
Learning vocabulary well is important.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 词汇
他的 词 汇比较贫乏。
Tā de cíhuì bǐjiào pínfá.
His vocabulary is rather poor.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贫乏
这两个 词 很难区分。
Zhè liǎng ge cí hěn nán qūfēn.
These two words are hard to tell apart.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 区分
请你解释一下这个 词 。
Qǐng nǐ jiěshì yíxià zhège cí.
Please explain this word.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 解释
这两个 词 有什么区别?
Zhè liǎng ge cí yǒu shénme qūbié?
What is the difference between these two words?
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 区别
这本 词 典一共有三册。
Zhè běn cídiǎn yígòng yǒu sān cè.
This dictionary comes in three volumes.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 册
这本书的 词 汇比较难。
Zhè běn shū de cíhuì bǐjiào nán.
The vocabulary in this book is fairly difficult.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 词汇
请解释这个 词 的意义。
Qǐng jiěshì zhège cí de yìyì.
Please explain the meaning of this word.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 意义
这个 词 由两个字组成。
Zhège cí yóu liǎng ge zì zǔchéng.
This word is made up of two characters.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 组成
这个 词 有好几层含义。
Zhège cí yǒu hǎojǐ céng hányì.
This word has several layers of meaning.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 含义
这个 词 的内涵很丰富。
Zhège cí de nèihán hěn fēngfù.
This word has a rich range of meaning.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 内涵
这个 词 用得不够确切。
Zhège cí yòng de bú gòu quèqiè.
This word is not used precisely enough.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 确切
生 词 下面都加了注释。
Shēngcí xiàmiàn dōu jiā le zhùshì.
Notes have been added under each new word.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 注释
我想借你的 词 典用一下。
Wǒ xiǎng jiè nǐ de cídiǎn yòng yíxià.
I'd like to borrow your dictionary for a moment.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 借
学汉语要慢慢积累 词 语。
Xué Hànyǔ yào mànmàn jīlěi cíyǔ.
Learning Chinese means building up vocabulary slowly.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 积累
这两个 词 的意思不相同。
Zhè liǎng ge cí de yìsi bù xiāngtóng.
These two words do not mean the same thing.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 相同
这两个 词 的分别在哪里?
Zhè liǎng ge cí de fēnbié zài nǎlǐ?
Where is the difference between these two words?
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 分别
这个 词 带有明显的贬义。
Zhège cí dàiyǒu míngxiǎn de biǎnyì.
This word carries a clearly derogatory sense.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贬义
这两个 词 的意思很类似。
Zhè liǎng ge cí de yìsi hěn lèisì.
The meanings of these two words are very similar.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 类似
我用 词 典找这个字的意思。
Wǒ yòng cídiǎn zhǎo zhège zì de yìsi.
I use a dictionary to look up what this character means.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 词典
老师送了我一本汉语 词 典。
Lǎoshī sòng le wǒ yì běn Hànyǔ cídiǎn.
My teacher gave me a Chinese dictionary.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 词典
老师让我们记住这些 词 语。
Lǎoshī ràng wǒmen jìzhù zhèxiē cíyǔ.
The teacher had us memorise these words and phrases.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 词语
Reading these is one thing; producing 词 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
词 appears in 33 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 词
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 词
How is 词 used in a sentence?
This page shows 33 sentences using 词 (cí, "Word"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 词 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 词 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 词?
The dictionary page for 词 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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