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

variant of 詞彙|词汇[ci2 hui4]

dictionary; CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]

meaning of a word

writer of 詞|词[ci2] (a kind of Classical Chinese poem); person of literary talent

variant of 辭令|辞令[ci2 ling4]

lexeme

(computing) token (in NLP and AI)

words and sentences

prefix; headword (in a dictionary)

suffix

word stem (in linguistics)

word order

word stock; lexicon

form of words (e.g. inflection, conjugation); morphology (linguistics)

part of speech (noun, verb, adjective etc); lexical category

meaning of word; sense

word family (cognate words within a given language)

entry (in a dictionary)

(linguistics) root

morphology (linguistics); word formation and inflection

etymology; origin of a word

names of the tunes to which 詞|词[ci2] poems are composed

headword (in a dictionary)

key word

to not know what to say; to be lost for words

(linguistics) part of speech; word class; lexical category

morpheme

phrase (grammar)

prefix or suffix of a compound word; affix (linguistics)

book; written composition; (literary) penned words

rhetoric; flowery language

lawsuit; legal case

form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty

lexical item

word frequency

lexicography

(linguistics) analytic language

lexicology (linguistics)

legal fees; costs (of a lawsuit)

words do not convey the meaning; poorly expressed; senseless; inarticulate

(idiom) writer; wordsmith

part-of-speech tagging

concise but unambiguous (idiom)

(philosophy) term logic; syllogistic logic