Chinese words starting with “ci”
40 words in our HSK vocabulary start with the syllable ci. They are sorted by how common they are, so the ones you are most likely to meet come first. The 3 most useful of them have their own page — they are listed first below.
Initial c · final i · hear the four tones and see example characters →
- 2nd tone 16
- 3rd tone 11
- 4th tone 13
Word counts by tone are counted on the first syllable of each word.
Common words with this syllable
- 刺激cì jīHSK 4
to provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite; irritant
- 词语cí yǔHSK 2
word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases); term (e.g. technical term); expression
- 词典cí diǎnHSK 2
dictionary; also written 辞典
All 40 words
| # | Word | Pinyin | POS | Meaning | Study list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 次 | cì | qv,a,g | next in sequence; second; the second (day, time etc); secondary; vice-; sub-; infra-; inferior quality; substandard; order; sequence; hypo- (chemistry); classifier for enumerated events: time | |
| 2 | 此 | cǐ | r | this; these | |
| 3 | 词 | cí | n | word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝 | |
| 4 | 刺 | cì | v,n | thorn; sting; thrust; to prick; to pierce; to stab; to assassinate; to murder | |
| 5 | 此时 | cǐ shí | r | now; this moment | |
| 6 | 此外 | cǐ wài | c | besides; in addition; moreover; furthermore | |
| 7 | 慈善 | cí shàn | a,an | benevolent; charitable | |
| 8 | 辞职 | cí zhí | v,vn | to resign | |
| 9 | 此刻 | cǐ kè | r | this moment; now; at present | |
| 10 | 此次 | cǐ cì | r | this time | |
| 11 | 此事 | cǐ shì | r | this matter | |
| 12 | 辞 | cí | v,g | to resign; to dismiss; to decline; to take leave; ballad (archaic poetic genre); variant of 词 | |
| 13 | 赐 | cì | v,vn | to confer; to bestow; to grant; Taiwan pr. [sì] | |
| 14 | 次数 | cì shù | n | number of times; frequency; order number (in a series); power (math.); degree of a polynomial (math.) | |
| 15 | 此后 | cǐ hòu | t | after this; afterwards; hereafter | |
| 16 | 此处 | cǐ chù | s | this place; here (literary) | |
| 17 | 此前 | cǐ qián | t | before this; before then; previously | |
| 18 | 词汇 | cí huì | n | vocabulary; list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes); word | |
| 19 | 伺候 | cì hou | v | to serve; to wait upon | |
| 20 | 瓷器 | cí qì | n | chinaware; porcelain | |
| 21 | 磁带 | cí dài | n | magnetic tape | |
| 22 | 辞去 | cí qù | v | to resign; to quit | |
| 23 | 瓷 | cí | g | chinaware; porcelain; china | |
| 24 | 次日 | cì rì | t | next day; the morrow | |
| 25 | 次要 | cì yào | b | secondary | |
| 26 | 刺绣 | cì xiù | n,v | to embroider; embroidery | |
| 27 | 刺耳 | cì ěr | a | ear-piercing | |
| 28 | 辞退 | cí tuì | v | to dismiss; to discharge; to fire | |
| 29 | 次序 | cì xù | n | sequence; order | |
| 30 | 辞典 | cí diǎn | n | dictionary (variant of 词典) | |
| 31 | 雌雄 | cí xióng | n | male and female | |
| 32 | 磁盘 | cí pán | n | (computer) disk | |
| 33 | 辞呈 | cí chéng | n | (written) resignation | |
| 34 | 刺骨 | cì gǔ | z | piercing; cutting; bone-chilling; penetrating (cold) | |
| 35 | 慈祥 | cí xiáng | a | kindly; benevolent (often of older person) | |
| 36 | 此起彼伏 | cǐ qǐ bǐ fú | v | up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession; no sooner one subsides, the next arises; repeating continuously; occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc) | |
| 37 | 次品 | cì pǐn | n | substandard products; defective; seconds | |
| 38 | 磁卡 | cí kǎ | n | magnetic card; IC Card (telephone) | |
| 39 | 赐教 | cì jiào | v | (honorific) to impart one's wisdom; to enlighten | |
| 40 | 此致 | cǐ zhì | v | (used at the end of a letter to introduce a polite salutation) |
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