to say goodbye; to take one's leave

to quit (one's job); to dismiss (an employee)

old variant of 辭|辞[ci2]

excuse; pretext; entreaties; arguments

words; expression; what one says

to dismiss; to discharge; to fire

wording; way of expressing something; turn of phrase; diction

(written) resignation

to resign; to quit

to express in words or writing; to make a speech (esp. short introduction, vote of thanks, afterword, funeral homily etc); to address (an audience); same as 致詞|致词

to leave without saying good-bye

variant of 詞典|词典[ci2 dian3]

stern words

beautiful wordage; also written 麗詞|丽词[li4 ci2]

rhetoric

one-sided words; prejudice; flattery

variant of 冗詞|冗词[rong3 ci2]

oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones

to interpret the divinatory trigrams

dirge; lament

tactful expression; to politely decline

to interpret the divinatory trigrams

to decline with sincere thanks

variant of 悼詞|悼词[dao4 ci2]

variant of 託詞|托词[tuo1 ci2]

an elegy; elegiac words

to decline (an appointment, invitation etc)

term of respect; polite expression

language; use of words; phraseology; articles; essays; writing

Songs of Chu, an anthology of poetic songs, many from the state of Chu 楚[Chu3], collected in the Han dynasty 漢朝|汉朝[Han4 chao2]

to quit one's job (without having another one)

lectures

to tender one's resignation

flattering words

humble words; self-deprecatory expression; to modestly decline

praise

(literary) to pass away; to die; to depart from this world

dictionary; encyclopedia

polite speech; diplomatic language; rhetoric

to resign (a position)

to bid farewell (to); to say goodbye (to)

to resign a government post

to resign from a job

figure of speech

Cihai, encyclopedic dictionary of Chinese first published in 1936

see 送灶[song4 Zao4]

poetry and prose; rhetoric

rhetoric

to say goodbye; leave-taking; farewells