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Demonstration of three glyphs of "Ci", introduction to brush calligraphy, and examples of Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy.

Ci (pinyin: cí) is a common word in modern Chinese? , first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. A word is a knowing word, and its glyph consists of "disorder" indicating arrangement and "symplectic" indicating punishment. Its original meaning is litigation.

By extension, it is the words used in litigation. Then it is extended to general words and expressions, and also to a literary genre. In litigation, excuses are often made for innocence, so it can be extended to excuse.

Furthermore, the lawsuit is to get rid of the charges, so the word has extended meanings such as refusal and resignation. This series of meanings, as well as the extended meanings of words and articles, have gradually become the common meanings of the word.

Words and phrases

In the sense of word, word and word are synonyms. In the pre-Qin period, only "words" were said, not "words"; After the Han Dynasty, "Ci" gradually replaced "Ci".

There are three differences in the meaning and usage of these two words: first, they refer to two different styles, such as poetry and Song Ci, which are not written as words, and Chu Ci is not written as words. Second, words are used for word and lexical meaning, and words are used for verb meaning. Generally, compound words are written in a fixed way, such as lyrics, verbs, meanings and phrases, and are not written as words.

In some traditional places where words are used, words are often used, such as speech, answer, eulogy and so on. Third, farewell, non-acceptance, dismissal and other resignation meanings, and do not write words. ?

Words, words and thanks

All three words mean "refuse or not accept". The difference is that "ke" is generally only used in this sense, and there are few use cases in the literature; In addition to "Ci" and "Xie", there is other meaning, whose meanings are different; In this sense, "Xie" is slightly more euphemistic than "word".