康熙字典
Kāng xī Zì diǎn
Pinyin
Definition
康熙字典
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- the Kangxi Dictionary, named after the Kangxi Emperor, who in 1710 ordered its compilation, containing 47,035 single-character entries
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 health
- 2 healthy
- 1 letter
- 2 symbol
- 3 character
- 4 word
- 5 classifier: 个 gè
- 6 courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
- 1 the classics
- 2 scriptures
- 3 classical
- 4 classic (example, case etc)
- 5 typical
- 1 suboptimal health status
Idioms (17)
一字一泪
- 1 each word is a teardrop (idiom)
一字不提
- 1 to not mention a single word (about sth) (idiom)
一字千金
- 1 one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom)
- 2 (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect
- 3 each word is highly valued
一字褒贬
- 1 dispensing praise or blame with a single word (idiom)
- 2 concise and powerful style
八字没一撇
- 1 lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八 (idiom)
- 2 fig. things have not even begun to take shape
- 3 no sign of success yet