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词源

cí yuán

2-character word Traditional 詞源

What 词源 means

1. etymology
2. origin of a word

The characters in 词源

• 词cíword; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty…
• 源yuánroot; source; origin

Example sentences

• 那个词源于希腊。
  Nàge cí yuányú Xīlà.
  That word is of Greek origin.
• 这个词源于拉丁语。
  Zhège cíyuán yú Lādīngyǔ.
  This word comes from Latin.
• 这个词源自于希腊语。
  The word comes from Greek.

Sounds the same

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

• 词元(computing) token (in NLP and AI)