old variant of 詞|词[ci2]

= + : The King of Chu (c) has to listen to a boring lecture by a manager (司) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). The manager just wrote every word (词) of his speech (词) on an advertising column (讠) and is just reading the speech word by word.
word / statement / speech / lyrics / CL:組|组[zu3],個|个[ge4] / a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝|宋朝[Song4 chao2] / CL:首[shou3]

= + : The King of Chu (c) has to listen to a boring lecture by a manager (司) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). The manager just wrote every word (词) of his speech (词) on an advertising column (讠) and is just reading the speech word by word.

词 character breakdown

surname Si
to take charge of / to manage / department (under a ministry)

= + 𠮛 : Socrates (s) wants to use the plow (㇆) in front of the space station (Ø1), but he doesn't manage (司), even with the magical scroll called manual (𠮛). Suddenly, a manager (mnemonic symbol for 司) floats by and shows him how to manage (司).
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).

Characters with 词 as component

词 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 词

memorial speech / eulogy
to twist words and force logic (idiom) / sophistry / loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument / shoving false arguments down people's throats
veiled criticism
interjection (part of speech) / exclamation
ballad tune in southern dialects, usually to sanxian 三弦 or pipa 琵琶 accompaniment
postposition / suffix / word placed after
(of a singer, actor etc) to forget one's lines
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actor's lines (in theater)
to be unable to express oneself clearly (idiom)
(linguistics) content word
dialogue (for stage performance)
to rehearse one's lines (of actor)

Sentences with 词

词 currently does not appear in any sentence.