词性 (cí xìng) — part of speech (grammatical category); the grammatical properties that define a word's syntactic behavior

Definition

Examples

• 学习汉语时，了解每个词的词性很重要。
  Xué xí hàn yǔ shí, liǎo jiě měi gè cí de cí xìng hěn zhòng yào.
  When learning Chinese, it's important to understand the part of speech of each word.
• 这个词典在每个词后面标注了词性。
  Zhè ge cí diǎn zài měi gè cí hòu miàn biāo zhù le cí xìng.
  This dictionary marks the part of speech after each word.
• 一个词的词性可能不止一种。
  Yí gè cí de cí xìng kě néng bù zhǐ yì zhǒng.
  A word may have more than one part of speech.