Glossary and Vocabulary for An introduction to Chinese calligraphy, 字 Characters

Corpus Vocabulary Analysis

Contents

  1. Frequencies of Lexical Words
  2. Frequencies of all Words
  3. Proper Nouns

Frequencies of Lexical Words

Rank Frequency Chinese Pinyin English Example Usage
1 11 letter; symbol; character
2 11 Zi
3 11 to love
4 11 to teach; to educate
5 11 to be allowed to marry
6 11 courtesy name; style name; scholarly or literary name
7 11 diction; wording
8 11 handwriting
9 11 calligraphy; a work of calligraphy
10 11 a written pledge; a letter; a contract
11 11 a font; a calligraphic style
12 11 the phonetic value of a character; the pronunciation of a character
13 10 颜体 yán tǐ calligraphic style of Yan Zhenqing 颜体
14 3 niú an ox; a cow; a bull
15 3 niú Niu
16 3 niú Kangxi radical 93
17 3 niú Taurus
18 3 niú stubborn
19 3 xià bottom
20 3 xià to fall; to drop; to go down; to descend
21 3 xià to announce
22 3 xià to do
23 3 xià to withdraw; to leave; to exit
24 3 xià the lower class; a member of the lower class
25 3 xià inside
26 3 xià an aspect
27 3 xià a certain time
28 3 xià to capture; to take
29 3 xià to put in
30 3 xià to enter
31 3 xià to eliminate; to remove; to get off
32 3 xià to finish work or school
33 3 xià to go
34 3 xià to scorn; to look down on
35 3 xià to modestly decline
36 3 xià to produce
37 3 xià to stay at; to lodge at
38 3 xià to decide
39 3 xià to be less than
40 3 xià humble; lowly
41 3 four 四字
42 3 note a musical scale 四字
43 3 fourth 四字
44 3 Si 四字
45 3 zhǔ owner 主字
46 3 zhǔ principal; main; primary 主字
47 3 zhǔ master 主字
48 3 zhǔ host 主字
49 3 zhǔ to manage; to lead 主字
50 3 zhǔ to decide; to advocate 主字
51 3 zhǔ to have an opinion; to hold a particular view 主字
52 3 zhǔ to signify; to indicate 主字
53 3 zhǔ oneself 主字
54 3 zhǔ a person; a party 主字
55 3 zhǔ God; the Lord 主字
56 3 zhǔ lord; ruler; chief 主字
57 3 zhǔ an ancestral tablet 主字
58 3 zhǔ princess 主字
59 3 zhǔ chairperson 主字
60 3 zhǔ fundamental 主字
61 3 zhǔ Zhu 主字
62 3 zhù to pour 主字
63 2 píng flat; level; smooth
64 2 píng calm; peaceful
65 2 píng Ping
66 2 píng equal
67 2 píng to conquer
68 2 píng to regulate; to control
69 2 píng to tie; to draw
70 2 píng to pacify
71 2 píng to make level
72 2 píng to be at the same level
73 2 píng fair; impartial
74 2 píng to restrain anger
75 2 píng ordinary; common
76 2 píng a level tone
77 2 píng a unit of weight
78 2 nèi inside; interior
79 2 nèi private
80 2 nèi family; domestic
81 2 nèi wife; consort
82 2 nèi an imperial palace
83 2 nèi an internal organ; heart
84 2 nèi female
85 2 nèi to approach
86 2 nèi indoors
87 2 nèi inner heart
88 2 nèi a room
89 2 nèi Nei
90 2 to receive
91 1 piě a downwards-left curved character stroke
92 1 piē to discard; to abandon; to throw away
93 1 piē to skim
94 1 piě to throw
95 1 piě an object in the shape of the downwards-left curved character stroke
96 1 piě to tap
97 1 piě to wipe off; to clean
98 1 piē to lose
99 1 piē to disobey; to defy
100 1 downwards-right concave stroke
101 1 press firmly with the hands or fingers
102 1 inhibit
103 1 to set aside
104 1 字帖 zìtiè copybook; a book for copying calligraphy 字帖
105 1 短撇 duǎn piě short downwards left curved stroke 短撇
106 1 右下点 yòu xià diǎn lower right dot 右下点
107 1 rice
108 1 Mi
109 1 Kangxi radical 119
110 1 a granule
111 1 food

Frequencies of all Words

Top 120

Rank Frequency Chinese Pinyin English Usage
1 11 letter; symbol; character
2 11 Zi
3 11 to love
4 11 to teach; to educate
5 11 to be allowed to marry
6 11 courtesy name; style name; scholarly or literary name
7 11 diction; wording
8 11 handwriting
9 11 calligraphy; a work of calligraphy
10 11 a written pledge; a letter; a contract
11 11 a font; a calligraphic style
12 11 the phonetic value of a character; the pronunciation of a character
13 10 颜体 yán tǐ calligraphic style of Yan Zhenqing 颜体
14 3 niú an ox; a cow; a bull
15 3 niú Niu
16 3 niú Kangxi radical 93
17 3 niú Taurus
18 3 niú stubborn
19 3 xià next
20 3 xià bottom
21 3 xià to fall; to drop; to go down; to descend
22 3 xià measure word for time
23 3 xià expresses completion of an action
24 3 xià to announce
25 3 xià to do
26 3 xià to withdraw; to leave; to exit
27 3 xià under; below
28 3 xià the lower class; a member of the lower class
29 3 xià inside
30 3 xià an aspect
31 3 xià a certain time
32 3 xià a time; an instance
33 3 xià to capture; to take
34 3 xià to put in
35 3 xià to enter
36 3 xià to eliminate; to remove; to get off
37 3 xià to finish work or school
38 3 xià to go
39 3 xià to scorn; to look down on
40 3 xià to modestly decline
41 3 xià to produce
42 3 xià to stay at; to lodge at
43 3 xià to decide
44 3 xià to be less than
45 3 xià humble; lowly
46 3 four 四字
47 3 note a musical scale 四字
48 3 fourth 四字
49 3 Si 四字
50 3 zhǔ owner 主字
51 3 zhǔ principal; main; primary 主字
52 3 zhǔ master 主字
53 3 zhǔ host 主字
54 3 zhǔ to manage; to lead 主字
55 3 zhǔ to decide; to advocate 主字
56 3 zhǔ to have an opinion; to hold a particular view 主字
57 3 zhǔ to signify; to indicate 主字
58 3 zhǔ oneself 主字
59 3 zhǔ a person; a party 主字
60 3 zhǔ God; the Lord 主字
61 3 zhǔ lord; ruler; chief 主字
62 3 zhǔ an ancestral tablet 主字
63 3 zhǔ princess 主字
64 3 zhǔ chairperson 主字
65 3 zhǔ fundamental 主字
66 3 zhǔ Zhu 主字
67 3 zhù to pour 主字
68 2 píng flat; level; smooth
69 2 píng calm; peaceful
70 2 píng Ping
71 2 píng equal
72 2 píng to conquer
73 2 píng to regulate; to control
74 2 píng to tie; to draw
75 2 píng to pacify
76 2 píng to make level
77 2 píng to be at the same level
78 2 píng fair; impartial
79 2 píng to restrain anger
80 2 píng ordinary; common
81 2 píng a level tone
82 2 píng a unit of weight
83 2 píng ordinarily
84 2 nèi inside; interior
85 2 nèi private
86 2 nèi family; domestic
87 2 nèi inside; interior
88 2 nèi wife; consort
89 2 nèi an imperial palace
90 2 nèi an internal organ; heart
91 2 nèi female
92 2 nèi to approach
93 2 nèi indoors
94 2 nèi inner heart
95 2 nèi a room
96 2 nèi Nei
97 2 to receive
98 1 piě a downwards-left curved character stroke
99 1 piě measure word for eye brows and beards
100 1 piē to discard; to abandon; to throw away
101 1 piē to skim
102 1 piě to throw
103 1 piě an object in the shape of the downwards-left curved character stroke
104 1 piě to tap
105 1 piě to wipe off; to clean
106 1 piē to lose
107 1 piē to disobey; to defy
108 1 downwards-right concave stroke
109 1 press firmly with the hands or fingers
110 1 inhibit
111 1 to set aside
112 1 字帖 zìtiè copybook; a book for copying calligraphy 字帖
113 1 短撇 duǎn piě short downwards left curved stroke 短撇
114 1 右下点 yòu xià diǎn lower right dot 右下点
115 1 rice
116 1 meter
117 1 Mi
118 1 Kangxi radical 119
119 1 a granule
120 1 food

People, places

and other proper nouns

Simplified Traditional Pinyin English
颜体 顏體 121 calligraphic style of Yan Zhenqing

Glossary

Buddhist terminology, except the proper nouns listed above. Number of terms: 0.

Simplified Traditional Pinyin English