Chinese symbol for “vocabulary”
词汇
cí huì
Traditional: 詞彙
vocabulary; list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes); word
The closest CC-CEDICT match for vocabulary is 词汇 (cí huì), defined as: vocabulary; list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes); word.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “vocabulary”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 词汇.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 歌词 (歌詞) | gē cí | song lyric; lyrics |
| 名词 (名詞) | míng cí | (linguistics) noun; term (name for a concept) |
| 词语 (詞語) | cí yǔ | word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases); term (e.g. technical term) |
| 单词 (單詞) | dān cí | word; 个 (gè) |
| 外汇 (外匯) | wài huì | foreign (currency) exchange |
| 汇率 (匯率) | huì lǜ | exchange rate |
| 汇报 (匯報) | huì bào | to report; to give an account of |
See also: Japanese symbol for “vocabulary”.
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.