说文解字 (說文解字)
Shuō wén Jiě zì
Pinyin

Definition

说文解字 (說文解字)
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Shuō wén Jiě zì
  1. Shuowen Jiezi, the original Han dynasty Chinese character dictionary with 10,516 entries, authored by Xu Shen 許慎|许慎[Xǔ Shèn] in 2nd century

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

中文
Zhōng wén
  1. 1 Chinese language
了解
liǎo jiě
  1. 1 to understand
  2. 2 to realize
  3. 3 to find out
博文
bó wén
  1. 1 blog article
  2. 2 to write a blog article (netspeak)
原文
yuán wén
  1. 1 original text
名字
míng zi
  1. 1 name (of a person or thing)
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

一字一泪
yī zì yī lèi
  1. 1 each word is a teardrop (idiom)
一字不提
yī zì bù tí
  1. 1 to not mention a single word (about sth) (idiom)
一字千金
yī zì qiān jīn
  1. 1 one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom)
  2. 2 (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect
  3. 3 each word is highly valued
一字褒贬
yī zì bāo biǎn
  1. 1 dispensing praise or blame with a single word (idiom)
  2. 2 concise and powerful style
一文不值
yī wén bù zhí
  1. 1 worthless (idiom)
  2. 2 no use whatsoever