词典

Character by character

• 词cí7 strokesHSK 2 traditional 詞words; phrase, expression
• 典diǎn8 strokesHSK 2law, canon; documentation; classic, scripture

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 词典. 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

• 经典jīng diǎnHSK 4

  the classics; scriptures; classical; classic (example, case etc); typical

• 典型diǎn xíngHSK 4

  model; typical case; archetype; typical; representative

• 典礼diǎn lǐHSK 5

  celebration; ceremony

• 歌词gē cíHSK 6

  song lyric; lyrics

• 古典gǔ diǎnHSK 6

  classical

• 庆典qìng diǎnHSK 7

  celebration

• 词汇cí huìHSK 4

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

• 词语cí yǔHSK 2

  word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases); term (e.g. technical term); expression

• 典范diǎn fànHSK 7

  model; example; paragon

• 字典zì diǎnHSK 2

  Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters); (coll.) dictionary

• 辞典cí diǎnHSK 5

  dictionary (variant of 词典)

• 引经据典yǐn jīng jù diǎnHSK 7

  lit. to quote the classics; to quote chapter and verse (idiom)

• 生词shēng cíHSK 2

  new word (in textbook); word that is unfamiliar or not yet studied