TongTong
Sign in

辞退 (cí tuì) — to dismiss; to fire (from a job)

Definition

辞退 means an employer dismisses an employee — softer than 解雇 or 开除 (which imply serious cause). Compare 辞职 (the employee quits) and 免职 (an official removed from post).

verb
to dismissto fire (from a job)

Examples

  • 辞退。
    Gōng sī yīn wèi jīng jì wèn tí bù dé bù cí tuì yì xiē yuán gōng.
    The company had to fire some employees due to financial issues.
  • 辞退。
    Tā shàng ge yuè bèi zhè jiā gōng chǎng cí tuì le.
    He was dismissed from this factory last month.
  • 辞退。
    Lǎo bǎn jué dìng cí tuì nà ge jīng cháng chí dào de sī jī.
    The boss decided to fire that driver who is often late.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

辞cídismiss
退tuìremove

辞 means to let someone leave, and 退 reinforces the sense of dismissal.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 辞 →

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

  • 皀皀jífood vessel
  • 夊夊suīdownward foot

退 originally showed 皀, a food vessel, with 夊, a downward foot, for leaving the table after eating. In modern 退, the vessel part 皀 changed into an unrelated shape.

Open 退 →
Appears in
HSK 3.0 Level 7-9Workplace & Office

Browse more HSK 7-9 words or search the full 43,000-word dictionary.