Chinese Language Reference

100 Essential 4-Character Expressions

Corpus-ranked chengyu (成语) and common 4-character phrases 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