词汇/詞彙 cíhuì — vocabulary, lexicon

Meanings

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   vocabulary, lexicon

   The whole stock of words a language, a field, or a learner has — never a single word by itself, which is 词 or 单词.

   noun

Example sentences

• 学习汉语需要积累大量词汇。/學習漢語需要積累大量詞彙。Xuéxí (second tone, rising) Hànyǔ (fourth tone, falling) xūyào (first tone, high and level) jīlěi (first tone, high and level) dàliàng (fourth tone, falling) cíhuì. (second tone, rising)···

  Learning Chinese requires building up a large vocabulary.

• 这本书的词汇量比较大。/這本書的詞彙量比較大。Zhè (fourth tone, falling) běn (third tone, dipping) shū (first tone, high and level) de (neutral tone) cíhuìliàng (second tone, rising) bǐjiào (third tone, dipping) dà. (fourth tone, falling)···

  This book has a fairly large vocabulary range.