HSK 5 · Work

辞职 cízhí “to resign” in Chinese

Traditional 辭職

What 辞职 means

  1. to resign

How to say 辞职

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale辞cí2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale职zhí2nd tone, rising

辞职 in a sentence

  1. 他辞职了。

    Tā cízhí le.

    He resigned.

    Sentence #9409626 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我一点也没有要辞职的意思。

    Wǒ yìdiǎn yě méiyǒu yào cízhí de yìsi.

    I have no intention of resigning at all.

    Sentence #461610 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我的同事辞职了，后来去上海教英语。

    Wǒ de tóngshì cízhí le, hòulái qù Shànghǎi jiāo Yīngyǔ.

    My colleague quit his job and later went to Shanghai to teach English.

    Sentence #8645594 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 辞职 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 辞 (cí) with each of its parts in a different colour
辞cíto resign
  • 舌tongue · shé
  • 辛bitter · xīn
The character 职 (zhí) with each of its parts in a different colour
职zhíoffice
  • 耳ear · ěrMeaning part
  • 只only · zhǐSound part

耳 hints at the meaning (ear); 只 (zhǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhí.

How to write 辞职

辞 13 strokes · 职 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

辞职 (cízhí) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 辞职 (cízhí). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 辞职

Words with 辞

推辞tuīcí · to decline (an offer or invitation)告辞gàocí · to take leave致辞zhìcí · to give a speech (formal)

Words with 职

职业zhíyè · occupation兼职jiānzhí · part-time job就职jiùzhí · to take office职能zhínéng · function职位zhíwèi · position职务zhíwù · post

More words: Work & Career

报到bàodào · to report for duty报告bàogào · to inform编辑biānjí · to edit部门bùmén · department从事cóngshì · to engage in打工dǎgōng · to work a casual or part-time job待遇dàiyù · treatment贷款dàikuǎn · a loan

FAQs

辞职 (cízhí) means “to resign”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it cízhí: cí with a 2nd tone, then zhí with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 辞职 is written 辭職. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type cizhi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 辞职 from the suggestions. Typing cizhi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
辞职 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.