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

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

Glossary

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

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