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发语词

fā yǔ cí

3-character word Traditional 發語詞

What 发语词 means

1. form word
2. in Classical Chinese, the first character of phrase having auxiliary grammatical function

The characters in 发语词

• 发fāto send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue
• 语yǔdialect; language; speech
• 词cíword; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty…

Sounds the same

Read fā yǔ cí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 发语辞literary auxiliary particle, comes at the beginning of a sentence