詞 – part of speech, words, poetry

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The kanji 詞 means part of speech, words, poetry. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is シ (shi); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ことば (kotoba). It is written with 12 strokes, under radical 言 (no. 149).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	シ	shi
Kun’yomi	ことば	kotoba

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 言 (Kangxi radical 149). Components: 言・口・亅・一.

Words using 詞

名詞めいしnoun動詞どうしverb助詞じょしparticle副詞ふくしadverb形容詞けいようしadjective代名詞だいめいしpronoun台詞せりふ(spoken) line (in a play, film, comic, etc.)形容動詞けいようどうしadjectival noun (in Japanese)数詞すうしnumeral接続詞せつぞくしconjunction他動詞たどうしtransitive verb助動詞じょどうしinflecting dependent word (in Japanese)

Example sentences

名詞を修飾するものは、形容詞または形容詞相当語句です。

Things that modify nouns are adjectives or equivalent to adjectives.

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この動詞の変化を言えますか。

Can you conjugate this verb?

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中国語においては「テンス」を表す場合には上述のように「助詞」か「時を表す語」または文脈によるものが多い。

When indicating 'tense' in Chinese, as shown above, there are 'particles', 'time-specifying words' and also many cases where it depends on context.

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Kanji with the same radical

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