part of speech, words, poetry
詞 centers on structured language: words as building blocks of speech, grammatical categories, and poetic expression.
詞 combines 言 (speech, words) with 司, which likely contributes the sound and may suggest managing or arranging words.
The left side 言 is speech, and the right side 司 looks like a person organizing something. Picture someone arranging words into poetry or sorting them into parts of speech.
For シ, imagine a poet writing words on a sheet of paper: sheet -> シ, and the words become poetry.
song lyrics; words of a song; libretto
(spoken) line (in a play, film, comic, etc.); one's lines
(writing) song lyrics
verb
pronoun
noun
words; writing; lyrics
adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)
proper noun
particle; postpositional word in Japanese grammar that functions as an auxiliary to a main word
adverb
inflecting dependent word (in Japanese); bound auxiliary
preposition
conjunction
pillow word; decorative word used prefixally in classical Japanese literature
ritual prayer; invocation of the gods participating in a rite
part of speech
participle
article
theatrical elocution