正字通
Zhèng zì tōng
Pinyin
Definition
正字通
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- Zhengzitong, Chinese character dictionary with 33,549 entries, edited by Ming scholar Zhang Zilie 張自烈|张自烈[Zhāng Zì liè] in 17th century
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to be connected
- 2 traffic
- 3 transportation
- 4 communications
- 5 liaison
- 1 anyway
- 2 in any case
- 3 to come over from the enemy's side
- 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 common
- 2 ordinary
- 3 general
- 4 average
Idioms (20)
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
一窍不通
- 1 lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head)
- 2 I don't understand a word (idiom)
- 3 it's all Greek to me