word form; morphological form
Tone colorsmāmámǎmàma
Meanings
1 sense · 3 examplesnoun
written form of a word; word form
formalUsed in linguistics to discuss spelling variations, orthography, or different character representations of the same word.
“
wéi唯
yī一
”
yǔ与
“
wéi惟
yī一
”
shì是
yī一
gè个
cí词
de的
bù不
tóng同
cí词
xíng形
。
‘Wéiyī’ and ‘wéiyī’ are different written forms of the same word.
Yīng英
yǔ语
zhōng中
，
“
colourc
héo
colorl
shìo
tóngu
yīr
”
gè和
“
cíc
deo
bùl
tóngo
cír
”
xíng是
同
一
个
词
的
不
同
词
形
。
In English, ‘colour’ and ‘color’ are different forms of the same word.
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Yán研
jiū究
gǔ古
hàn汉
yǔ语
shí时
，
xū需
yào要
liú留
yì意
cí词
xíng形
de的
lì历
shǐ史
yǎn演
biàn变
。
When studying Classical Chinese, one needs to pay attention to the historical evolution of word forms.