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Chinese symbol for “statement”

词
cí
Traditional: 詞
word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝 (Sòng cháo) (CL:首 (shǒu))

The closest CC-CEDICT match for statement is 词 (cí), defined as: word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝 (Sòng cháo) (CL:首 (shǒu)).

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Characters and stroke order

词 cí
phrase, expression; words, speech
radical 149 ⾔ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “statement”

WordPinyinMeaning
说法 (說法)shuō faway of speaking; wording
声明 (聲明)shēng míngto state; to declare
声明书 (聲明書)shēng míng shūstatement
发言 (發言)fā yánto make a speech; statement
供词 (供詞)gòng cíconfession; statement; Taiwan pr. [gong1ci2]

Related words

Other words that share a character with 词.

WordPinyinMeaning
歌词 (歌詞)gē císong lyric; lyrics
词汇 (詞匯)cí huìvariant of 词汇 (cí huì)
名词 (名詞)míng cí(linguistics) noun; term (name for a concept)
词语 (詞語)cí yǔword (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases); term (e.g. technical term)
单词 (單詞)dān cíword; 个 (gè)

See also: Japanese symbol for “statement”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.