CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

字词

zìcí

letters or words

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

letters or words

words or phrase

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 字词 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 字词 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

请改正划线字词。qǐng gǎi zhèng huà xiàn zì cí。

Correct the underlined words.

请在空格上填上适当的字词。qǐng zài kòng gé shàng tián shàng shì dàng de zì cí。

Fill in the blanks with suitable words.

当你在听外语（或者不能说是外语吧！）的歌曲时 ﹣ 例如是斯洛伐克语、马其顿语或者是斯洛文尼亚语的歌曲时 ﹣ 你会听见一些你从小就懂得的字词，有时甚至会听懂一整句句子，然后，你的心里就会泛起一阵温暖的感觉。dāng nǐ zài tīng wài yǔ （huò zhě bù néng shuō shì wài yǔ ba！） de gē qǔ shí ﹣ lì rú shì sī luò fá kè yǔ、 mǎ qí dùn yǔ huò zhě shì sī luò wén ní yà yǔ de gē qǔ shí ﹣ nǐ huì tīng jiàn yī xiē nǐ cóng xiǎo jiù dǒng de de zì cí， yǒu shí shèn zhì huì tīng dǒng yī zhěng jù jù zi， rán hòu， nǐ de xīn lǐ jiù huì fàn qǐ yī zhèn wēn nuǎn de gǎn jué。

It warms your heart when, while listening to a song in a (seemingly!) foreign language — Slovak, Macedonian, or Slovenian — you hear words that you have known since your childhood and even understand whole phrases.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 字词.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 字词.

Directly before

的字词2
划线字词1
在字词1

Directly after

字词上1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 字词

What does 字词 mean in Chinese?

字词 (zìcí) means letters or words.

How do you pronounce 字词?

字词 is pronounced zìcí.

Is 字词 an HSK word?

字词 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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