Chinese Character Wiki

辭

cí

words

Evolution

辭 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
辭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
辭 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
辭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

辞 (辭) 

cí

words, speech, expression, phrase; to resign; to dismiss; to decline; to take leave; ballad (archaic poetic genre); variant of 詞|词[cí]

Most common words with 辭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

辞职

to resign

辞

to resign

致辞

same as 致詞|致词

告辞

to say goodbye

言辞

words

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*sə.lə

zi

cí

words


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 20.5831% of movies

1433rd most common character in movies

1469th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

辞

Unicode

U+8FAD

Shuowen

“辭，訟也。从，猶理辜也。，理也。，籀文辭从司。”


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