Dictionary › 介词

介词

jiè cí

2-character word Traditional 介詞

What 介词 means

1. preposition

The characters in 介词

• 介jièto introduce; to lie between; between
• 词cíword; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty…

Example sentences

• “在”是介词。
  "zài " shì jiècí.
  "In" is a preposition.

Sounds the same

Read jiè cí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 借词loanword; pretext

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiè cí correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.