词语

Character by character

• 词cí7 strokesHSK 2 traditional 詞words; phrase, expression
• 语yǔ9 strokesHSK 1 traditional 語language, words; saying, expression

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 词语. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 词cíHSK 2

  word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝

• 语言yǔ yánHSK 2

  language

• 英语yīng yǔHSK 2

  English (language)

• 歌词gē cíHSK 6

  song lyric; lyrics

• 语气yǔ qìHSK 7

  tone; manner of speaking; mood

• 语音yǔ yīnHSK 4

  speech sounds; pronunciation; colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character; phonetic; audio; voice; (Internet) to voice chat; voice message

• 言语yán yǔHSK 5

  words; speech; (spoken) language

• 话语huà yǔHSK 7

  words; speech; utterance; discourse

• 法语fǎ yǔHSK 6

  French (language)

• 词汇cí huìHSK 4

  vocabulary; list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes); word

• 标语biāo yǔHSK 7

  written slogan; placard

• 日语rì yǔHSK 6

  Japanese language

• 外语wài yǔHSK 1

  foreign language

• 华语huá yǔHSK 5

  Chinese language

• 汉语hàn yǔHSK 1

  Chinese language

• 语法yǔ fǎHSK 4

  grammar

• 自言自语zì yán zì yǔHSK 6

  to talk to oneself; to think aloud; to soliloquize

• 俄语é yǔHSK 7

  Russian (language)

• 西班牙语xī bān yá yǔHSK 6

  Spanish language

• 词典cí diǎnHSK 2

  dictionary; also written 辞典

• 口语kǒu yǔHSK 4

  colloquial speech; spoken language; vernacular language; slander; gossip

• 母语mǔ yǔ

  native language; mother tongue; (linguistics) parent language

• 俗语sú yǔHSK 7

  common saying; proverb; colloquial speech

• 成语chéng yǔHSK 5

  Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage