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

Corpus Vocabulary Analysis

Contents

  1. Frequencies of Lexical Words
  2. Frequencies of all Words

Frequencies of Lexical Words

Rank Frequency Chinese Pinyin English Example Usage
1 2 kǒu Kangxi radical 30
2 2 kǒu mouth
3 2 kǒu an opening; a hole
4 2 kǒu eloquence
5 2 kǒu the edge of a blade
6 2 kǒu edge; border
7 2 kǒu verbal; oral
8 2 kǒu taste
9 2 kǒu population; people
10 2 kǒu an entrance; an exit; a pass
11 1 shǐ history
12 1 shǐ Shi
13 1 shǐ a history; a chronicle; annals
14 1 shǐ a historian
15 1 shǐ diverse
16 1 bài to bow; to pay respect to
17 1 bài to send greetings; to congratulate
18 1 bài to visit
19 1 bài to appoint; to confer a title
20 1 bài to enter into a relationship
21 1 bài a polite form; please
22 1 bài Bai
23 1 bài to perform a ritual
24 1 bài to bend
25 1 bài byte
26 1 tiān day
27 1 tiān heaven
28 1 tiān nature
29 1 tiān sky
30 1 tiān weather
31 1 tiān father; husband
32 1 tiān a necessity
33 1 tiān season
34 1 tiān destiny
35 1 tiān very high; sky high [prices]
36 1 book; volume
37 1 a roll of bamboo slips
38 1 a plan; a scheme
39 1 to confer
40 1 chǎi a book with embroidered covers
41 1 patent of enfeoffment
42 1 xíng to walk
43 1 xíng capable; competent
44 1 háng profession
45 1 xíng Kangxi radical 144
46 1 xíng to travel
47 1 xìng actions; conduct
48 1 xíng to do; to act; to practice
49 1 xíng all right; OK; okay
50 1 háng horizontal line
51 1 héng virtuous deeds
52 1 hàng a line of trees
53 1 hàng bold; steadfast
54 1 xíng to move
55 1 xíng to put into effect; to implement
56 1 xíng travel
57 1 xíng to circulate
58 1 xíng running script; running script
59 1 xíng temporary
60 1 háng rank; order
61 1 háng a business; a shop
62 1 xíng to depart; to leave
63 1 xíng to experience
64 1 xíng path; way
65 1 xíng xing; ballad
66 1 xíng Xing
67 1 píng flat; level; smooth
68 1 píng calm; peaceful
69 1 píng Ping
70 1 píng equal
71 1 píng to conquer
72 1 píng to regulate; to control
73 1 píng to tie; to draw
74 1 píng to pacify
75 1 píng to make level
76 1 píng to be at the same level
77 1 píng fair; impartial
78 1 píng to restrain anger
79 1 píng ordinary; common
80 1 píng a level tone
81 1 píng a unit of weight
82 1 dào way; road; path
83 1 dào principle; a moral; morality
84 1 dào Tao; the Way
85 1 dào to say; to speak; to talk
86 1 dào to think
87 1 dào circuit; a province
88 1 dào a course; a channel
89 1 dào a method; a way of doing something
90 1 dào a doctrine
91 1 dào Taoism; Daoism
92 1 dào a skill
93 1 dào a sect
94 1 dào a line
95 1 xià bottom
96 1 xià to fall; to drop; to go down; to descend
97 1 xià to announce
98 1 xià to do
99 1 xià to withdraw; to leave; to exit
100 1 xià the lower class; a member of the lower class
101 1 xià inside
102 1 xià an aspect
103 1 xià a certain time
104 1 xià to capture; to take
105 1 xià to put in
106 1 xià to enter
107 1 xià to eliminate; to remove; to get off
108 1 xià to finish work or school
109 1 xià to go
110 1 xià to scorn; to look down on
111 1 xià to modestly decline
112 1 xià to produce
113 1 xià to stay at; to lodge at
114 1 xià to decide
115 1 xià to be less than
116 1 xià humble; lowly
117 1 four
118 1 note a musical scale
119 1 fourth
120 1 Si
121 1 wén writing; text
122 1 wén Kangxi radical 67
123 1 wén Wen
124 1 wén lines or grain on an object
125 1 wén culture
126 1 wén refined writings
127 1 wén civil; non-military
128 1 wén to conceal a fault; gloss over
129 1 wén wen
130 1 wén ornamentation; adornment
131 1 wén to ornament; to adorn
132 1 wén beautiful
133 1 wén a text; a manuscript
134 1 wén a group responsible for ritual and music
135 1 wén the text of an imperial order
136 1 wén liberal arts
137 1 wén a rite; a ritual
138 1 wén a tattoo
139 1 wén a classifier for copper coins
140 1 to enter
141 1 Kangxi radical 11
142 1 radical
143 1 income
144 1 to conform with
145 1 to descend
146 1 the entering tone
147 1 to pay
148 1 to join
149 1 one
150 1 Kangxi radical 1
151 1 pure; concentrated
152 1 first
153 1 the same
154 1 sole; single
155 1 a very small amount
156 1 Yi
157 1 other
158 1 to unify
159 1 accidentally; coincidentally
160 1 abruptly; suddenly
161 1 èr two
162 1 èr Kangxi radical 7
163 1 èr second
164 1 èr twice; double; di-
165 1 èr more than one kind
166 1 nèi inside; interior
167 1 nèi private
168 1 nèi family; domestic
169 1 nèi wife; consort
170 1 nèi an imperial palace
171 1 nèi an internal organ; heart
172 1 nèi female
173 1 nèi to approach
174 1 nèi indoors
175 1 nèi inner heart
176 1 nèi a room
177 1 nèi Nei
178 1 to receive
179 1 five
180 1 fifth musical note
181 1 Wu
182 1 the five elements
183 1 a government official; a magistrate
184 1 Li
185 1 shì a gentleman; a knight
186 1 shì Kangxi radical 33
187 1 shì a soldier
188 1 shì a social stratum
189 1 shì an unmarried man; a man
190 1 shì somebody trained in a specialized field
191 1 shì a scholar
192 1 shì a respectful term for a person
193 1 shì corporal; sergeant
194 1 shì Shi
195 1 father
196 1 Kangxi radical 88
197 1 a male of an older generation
198 1 a polite form of address for an older male
199 1 worker
200 1 to go; to
201 1 to rely on; to depend on
202 1 Yu
203 1 a crow
204 1 yòu Kangxi radical 29
205 1 zǎo early
206 1 zǎo early morning
207 1 zǎo a long time ago
208 1 zǎo previous
209 1 zǎo Zao
210 1 zhèng upright; straight
211 1 zhèng to straighten; to correct
212 1 zhèng main; central; primary
213 1 zhèng fundamental; original
214 1 zhèng precise; exact; accurate
215 1 zhèng at right angles
216 1 zhèng unbiased; impartial
217 1 zhèng true; correct; orthodox
218 1 zhèng unmixed; pure
219 1 zhèng positive (charge)
220 1 zhèng positive (number)
221 1 zhèng standard
222 1 zhèng chief; principal; primary
223 1 zhèng honest
224 1 zhèng to execute; to carry out
225 1 zhèng accepted; conventional
226 1 zhèng to govern
227 1 zhēng first month
228 1 zhēng center of a target
229 1 tián field; farmland
230 1 tián Kangxi radical 102
231 1 tián an open area of land
232 1 tián Tian
233 1 tián to cultivate a field
234 1 tián an allotment of land
235 1 tián a cinnabar field
236 1 tián to hunt
237 1 rén person; people; a human being
238 1 rén Kangxi radical 9
239 1 rén a kind of person
240 1 rén everybody
241 1 rén adult
242 1 rén somebody; others
243 1 rén an upright person
244 1 niú an ox; a cow; a bull
245 1 niú Niu
246 1 niú Kangxi radical 93
247 1 niú Taurus
248 1 niú stubborn
249 1 yuē to speak; to say
250 1 yuē Kangxi radical 73
251 1 yuē to be called
252 1 shí ten
253 1 shí Kangxi radical 24
254 1 shí tenth
255 1 shí complete; perfect
256 1 wáng Wang
257 1 wáng a king
258 1 wáng Kangxi radical 96
259 1 wàng to be king; to rule
260 1 wáng a prince; a duke
261 1 wáng grand; great
262 1 wáng to treat with the ceremony due to a king
263 1 wáng a respectufl form of address for a grandfather or grandmother
264 1 wáng the head of a group or gang
265 1 wáng the biggest or best of a group
266 1 day of the month; a certain day
267 1 Kangxi radical 72
268 1 a day
269 1 Japan
270 1 sun
271 1 daytime
272 1 sunlight
273 1 everyday
274 1 season
275 1 available time
276 1 in the past
277 1 mi
278 1 zhǔ owner
279 1 zhǔ principal; main; primary
280 1 zhǔ master
281 1 zhǔ host
282 1 zhǔ to manage; to lead
283 1 zhǔ to decide; to advocate
284 1 zhǔ to have an opinion; to hold a particular view
285 1 zhǔ to signify; to indicate
286 1 zhǔ oneself
287 1 zhǔ a person; a party
288 1 zhǔ God; the Lord
289 1 zhǔ lord; ruler; chief
290 1 zhǔ an ancestral tablet
291 1 zhǔ princess
292 1 zhǔ chairperson
293 1 zhǔ fundamental
294 1 zhǔ Zhu
295 1 zhù to pour
296 1 sān three
297 1 sān third
298 1 sān more than two
299 1 sān very few
300 1 sān San
301 1 big; huge; large
302 1 Kangxi radical 37
303 1 great; major; important
304 1 size
305 1 old
306 1 oldest; earliest
307 1 adult
308 1 dài an important person
309 1 senior

Frequencies of all Words

Top 369

Rank Frequency Chinese Pinyin English Usage
1 2 kǒu measure word for people, pigs, and kitcheware
2 2 kǒu Kangxi radical 30
3 2 kǒu mouth
4 2 kǒu an opening; a hole
5 2 kǒu eloquence
6 2 kǒu the edge of a blade
7 2 kǒu edge; border
8 2 kǒu verbal; oral
9 2 kǒu taste
10 2 kǒu population; people
11 2 kǒu an entrance; an exit; a pass
12 1 shǐ history
13 1 shǐ Shi
14 1 shǐ a history; a chronicle; annals
15 1 shǐ a historian
16 1 shǐ diverse
17 1 bài to bow; to pay respect to
18 1 bài to send greetings; to congratulate
19 1 bài to visit
20 1 bài to appoint; to confer a title
21 1 bài to enter into a relationship
22 1 bài a polite form; please
23 1 bài Bai
24 1 bài to perform a ritual
25 1 bài to bend
26 1 bài byte
27 1 tiān day
28 1 tiān day
29 1 tiān heaven
30 1 tiān nature
31 1 tiān sky
32 1 tiān weather
33 1 tiān father; husband
34 1 tiān a necessity
35 1 tiān season
36 1 tiān destiny
37 1 tiān very high; sky high [prices]
38 1 tiān very
39 1 book; volume
40 1 measure word for book like things
41 1 a roll of bamboo slips
42 1 a plan; a scheme
43 1 to confer
44 1 chǎi a book with embroidered covers
45 1 patent of enfeoffment
46 1 xíng to walk
47 1 xíng capable; competent
48 1 háng profession
49 1 háng line; row
50 1 xíng Kangxi radical 144
51 1 xíng to travel
52 1 xìng actions; conduct
53 1 xíng to do; to act; to practice
54 1 xíng all right; OK; okay
55 1 háng horizontal line
56 1 héng virtuous deeds
57 1 hàng a line of trees
58 1 hàng bold; steadfast
59 1 xíng to move
60 1 xíng to put into effect; to implement
61 1 xíng travel
62 1 xíng to circulate
63 1 xíng running script; running script
64 1 xíng temporary
65 1 xíng soon
66 1 háng rank; order
67 1 háng a business; a shop
68 1 xíng to depart; to leave
69 1 xíng to experience
70 1 xíng path; way
71 1 xíng xing; ballad
72 1 xíng a round [of drinks]
73 1 xíng Xing
74 1 xíng moreover; also
75 1 píng flat; level; smooth
76 1 píng calm; peaceful
77 1 píng Ping
78 1 píng equal
79 1 píng to conquer
80 1 píng to regulate; to control
81 1 píng to tie; to draw
82 1 píng to pacify
83 1 píng to make level
84 1 píng to be at the same level
85 1 píng fair; impartial
86 1 píng to restrain anger
87 1 píng ordinary; common
88 1 píng a level tone
89 1 píng a unit of weight
90 1 píng ordinarily
91 1 dào way; road; path
92 1 dào principle; a moral; morality
93 1 dào Tao; the Way
94 1 dào measure word for long things
95 1 dào to say; to speak; to talk
96 1 dào to think
97 1 dào times
98 1 dào circuit; a province
99 1 dào a course; a channel
100 1 dào a method; a way of doing something
101 1 dào measure word for doors and walls
102 1 dào measure word for courses of a meal
103 1 dào a centimeter
104 1 dào a doctrine
105 1 dào Taoism; Daoism
106 1 dào a skill
107 1 dào a sect
108 1 dào a line
109 1 xià next
110 1 xià bottom
111 1 xià to fall; to drop; to go down; to descend
112 1 xià measure word for time
113 1 xià expresses completion of an action
114 1 xià to announce
115 1 xià to do
116 1 xià to withdraw; to leave; to exit
117 1 xià under; below
118 1 xià the lower class; a member of the lower class
119 1 xià inside
120 1 xià an aspect
121 1 xià a certain time
122 1 xià a time; an instance
123 1 xià to capture; to take
124 1 xià to put in
125 1 xià to enter
126 1 xià to eliminate; to remove; to get off
127 1 xià to finish work or school
128 1 xià to go
129 1 xià to scorn; to look down on
130 1 xià to modestly decline
131 1 xià to produce
132 1 xià to stay at; to lodge at
133 1 xià to decide
134 1 xià to be less than
135 1 xià humble; lowly
136 1 four
137 1 note a musical scale
138 1 fourth
139 1 Si
140 1 wén writing; text
141 1 wén Kangxi radical 67
142 1 wén Wen
143 1 wén lines or grain on an object
144 1 wén culture
145 1 wén refined writings
146 1 wén civil; non-military
147 1 wén to conceal a fault; gloss over
148 1 wén wen
149 1 wén ornamentation; adornment
150 1 wén to ornament; to adorn
151 1 wén beautiful
152 1 wén a text; a manuscript
153 1 wén a group responsible for ritual and music
154 1 wén the text of an imperial order
155 1 wén liberal arts
156 1 wén a rite; a ritual
157 1 wén a tattoo
158 1 wén a classifier for copper coins
159 1 to enter
160 1 Kangxi radical 11
161 1 radical
162 1 income
163 1 to conform with
164 1 to descend
165 1 the entering tone
166 1 to pay
167 1 to join
168 1 one
169 1 Kangxi radical 1
170 1 as soon as; all at once
171 1 pure; concentrated
172 1 whole; all
173 1 first
174 1 the same
175 1 each
176 1 certain
177 1 throughout
178 1 used in between a reduplicated verb
179 1 sole; single
180 1 a very small amount
181 1 Yi
182 1 other
183 1 to unify
184 1 accidentally; coincidentally
185 1 abruptly; suddenly
186 1 or
187 1 èr two
188 1 èr Kangxi radical 7
189 1 èr second
190 1 èr twice; double; di-
191 1 èr another; the other
192 1 èr more than one kind
193 1 nèi inside; interior
194 1 nèi private
195 1 nèi family; domestic
196 1 nèi inside; interior
197 1 nèi wife; consort
198 1 nèi an imperial palace
199 1 nèi an internal organ; heart
200 1 nèi female
201 1 nèi to approach
202 1 nèi indoors
203 1 nèi inner heart
204 1 nèi a room
205 1 nèi Nei
206 1 to receive
207 1 five
208 1 fifth musical note
209 1 Wu
210 1 the five elements
211 1 a government official; a magistrate
212 1 Li
213 1 shì a gentleman; a knight
214 1 shì Kangxi radical 33
215 1 shì a soldier
216 1 shì a social stratum
217 1 shì an unmarried man; a man
218 1 shì somebody trained in a specialized field
219 1 shì a scholar
220 1 shì a respectful term for a person
221 1 shì corporal; sergeant
222 1 shì Shi
223 1 father
224 1 Kangxi radical 88
225 1 a male of an older generation
226 1 a polite form of address for an older male
227 1 worker
228 1 in; at
229 1 in; at
230 1 in; at; to; from
231 1 to go; to
232 1 to rely on; to depend on
233 1 to go to; to arrive at
234 1 from
235 1 give
236 1 oppposing
237 1 and
238 1 compared to
239 1 by
240 1 and; as well as
241 1 for
242 1 Yu
243 1 a crow
244 1 whew; wow
245 1 yòu again; also
246 1 yòu expresses the existence of simultaneous conditions
247 1 yòu Kangxi radical 29
248 1 yòu and
249 1 yòu furthermore
250 1 yòu in addition
251 1 yòu but
252 1 zǎo early
253 1 zǎo early morning
254 1 zǎo soon
255 1 zǎo a long time ago
256 1 zǎo previous
257 1 zǎo Good morning!
258 1 zǎo Zao
259 1 zǎo already
260 1 zhèng upright; straight
261 1 zhèng just doing something; just now
262 1 zhèng to straighten; to correct
263 1 zhèng main; central; primary
264 1 zhèng fundamental; original
265 1 zhèng precise; exact; accurate
266 1 zhèng at right angles
267 1 zhèng unbiased; impartial
268 1 zhèng true; correct; orthodox
269 1 zhèng unmixed; pure
270 1 zhèng positive (charge)
271 1 zhèng positive (number)
272 1 zhèng standard
273 1 zhèng chief; principal; primary
274 1 zhèng honest
275 1 zhèng to execute; to carry out
276 1 zhèng precisely
277 1 zhèng accepted; conventional
278 1 zhèng to govern
279 1 zhèng only; just
280 1 zhēng first month
281 1 zhēng center of a target
282 1 tián field; farmland
283 1 tián Kangxi radical 102
284 1 tián an open area of land
285 1 tián Tian
286 1 tián to cultivate a field
287 1 tián an allotment of land
288 1 tián a cinnabar field
289 1 tián to hunt
290 1 rén person; people; a human being
291 1 rén Kangxi radical 9
292 1 rén a kind of person
293 1 rén everybody
294 1 rén adult
295 1 rén somebody; others
296 1 rén an upright person
297 1 niú an ox; a cow; a bull
298 1 niú Niu
299 1 niú Kangxi radical 93
300 1 niú Taurus
301 1 niú stubborn
302 1 yuē to speak; to say
303 1 yuē Kangxi radical 73
304 1 yuē to be called
305 1 yuē particle without meaning
306 1 shí ten
307 1 shí Kangxi radical 24
308 1 shí tenth
309 1 shí complete; perfect
310 1 wáng Wang
311 1 wáng a king
312 1 wáng Kangxi radical 96
313 1 wàng to be king; to rule
314 1 wáng a prince; a duke
315 1 wáng grand; great
316 1 wáng to treat with the ceremony due to a king
317 1 wáng a respectufl form of address for a grandfather or grandmother
318 1 wáng the head of a group or gang
319 1 wáng the biggest or best of a group
320 1 day of the month; a certain day
321 1 Kangxi radical 72
322 1 a day
323 1 Japan
324 1 sun
325 1 daytime
326 1 sunlight
327 1 everyday
328 1 season
329 1 available time
330 1 a day
331 1 in the past
332 1 mi
333 1 zhǔ owner
334 1 zhǔ principal; main; primary
335 1 zhǔ master
336 1 zhǔ host
337 1 zhǔ to manage; to lead
338 1 zhǔ to decide; to advocate
339 1 zhǔ to have an opinion; to hold a particular view
340 1 zhǔ to signify; to indicate
341 1 zhǔ oneself
342 1 zhǔ a person; a party
343 1 zhǔ God; the Lord
344 1 zhǔ lord; ruler; chief
345 1 zhǔ an ancestral tablet
346 1 zhǔ princess
347 1 zhǔ chairperson
348 1 zhǔ fundamental
349 1 zhǔ Zhu
350 1 zhù to pour
351 1 sān three
352 1 sān third
353 1 sān more than two
354 1 sān very few
355 1 sān repeatedly
356 1 sān San
357 1 big; huge; large
358 1 Kangxi radical 37
359 1 great; major; important
360 1 size
361 1 old
362 1 greatly; very
363 1 oldest; earliest
364 1 adult
365 1 tài greatest; grand
366 1 dài an important person
367 1 senior
368 1 approximately
369 1 tài greatest; grand

Glossary

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

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