cí hǎi
Ci Hai, an encyclopedic dictionary first published in 1915, most recent edition 1999
cì
next in sequence
second
the second (day, time etc)
secondary
vice-
sub-
infra-
inferior quality
substandard
order
sequence
hypo- (chemistry)
classifier for enumerated events: time
cí
word
statement
speech
lyrics
CL:組|组[zu3],個|个[ge4]
classical Chinese poem
CL:首[shou3]
lǚ xíng
to travel
journey
trip
CL:趟[tàng],次[cì],個|个[gè]
cì
thorn
sting
thrust
to prick
to pierce
to stab
to assassinate
to murder
cí
shrine
to offer a sacrifice
cí
Caltrop or puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris)
to thatch (a roof)
cí
to resign
to dismiss
to decline
to take leave
ballad (archaic poetic genre)
variant of 詞|词[ci2]
cí
compassionate
gentle
merciful
kind
humane
cì
to confer
to bestow
to grant
cí
magnetic
magnetism
porcelain
cí
chinaware
porcelain
china
Chǔ cí
Chu Ci, the Songs of Chu (ancient book of poems, collected during Han but esp. from country of Chu c. 500 BC)
què
(literary) to end
to stop
section of a ci poem
classifier for songs or ci poems
Cí xiàn
Ci county in Handan 邯鄲|邯郸[Han2 dan1], Hebei
Zǐ Gòng
Zi Gong or Duanmu Ci 端木賜|端木赐[Duan1 mu4 Ci4] (520 BC-), disciple of Confucius
cǐ
clear
bright and brilliant
cì
ancient tax in the form of bales of cloth
Sòng Cí
Song Ci (1186-1249), Southern Song lawyer, editor of Record of Washed Grievances 洗冤集錄|洗冤集录 (1247), said to be the world's first legal forensic text
wù xū zhèng biàn
coup by Dowager Empress Cixi 慈禧太后[Cí Xǐ tài hòu] ending the 1898 attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
Ān Dé hǎi
An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowager empress Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4], executed in 1869 by her rival Empress Mother Empress Dowager Ci'an 慈安皇太后
cǐ
to trample
to step
to walk on the ball of the foot
Duān mù Cì
Duanmu Ci (520 BC-446 BC), disciple of Confucius, also known as Zi Gong 子貢|子贡[Zi3 Gong4]
Xǐ yuān jí lù
Record of Washed Grievances (1247) by Song Ci 宋慈, said to be the world's first legal forensic text
Bái xiāng cí pǔ
Anthology of ci poems tunes (1795), edited by Xu Menglan 舒夢蘭|舒梦兰, with 100 accessible poems from Tang through to Qing times
Shū Mèng lán
Shu Menglan (1759-1835), Qin dynasty writer, poet and editor of Anthology of ci poems tunes 白香詞譜|白香词谱
niàn niàn yǒu cí
variant of 念念有詞|念念有词[niàn niàn yǒu cí]
cī
(coll.) to scold
to rebuke
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