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Kanji Detail for 辭 - "words, announce, decline, resign"

  • Meaning

    辭 means "words, announce, decline, resign."

    1. Words - Language; text; writing.

    2. Announce - To bid farewell.

    3. Decline - To refuse; to reject.

    4. Resign - To quit; to withdraw.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    words; speech; expression; phrase

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    words, speech, expression, phrase

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to resign; to dismiss; to decline; (literary) to take leave; (archaic poetic genre) ballad; variant of 詞|词[ci2]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    words, speech; to resign, to take leave

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Speech. Words that form a composition are called 辭. Such as 辭章 (literary composition). Also written as 詞. | Legal testimony. Same as today's confession. "Great Learning" says "Those without facts cannot fully express their words." | To tell. Today, saying goodbye is also called 辭行 (take leave). | To decline. Such as 推辭 (decline), 辭讓 (yield). Today the two characters are mostly interchangeable.
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