Chinese Language Reference

125 Essential Chinese Expressions

Corpus-ranked chengyu (成语), common 4-character phrases, and popular 俗语 (folk sayings) ordered by spoken frequency. Click any row to reveal example sentences. Sources: Jun Da News Corpus · HSK list · Jiao/Kubler/Zhang 500 · Gaokao required list.

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Sources: News corpus HSK list Spoken-rated Gaokao JKB 500  ·  成语 chengyu 常用语 common phrase 俗语 folk saying