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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 格言

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
格言 gé yán - maxim

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 19,748 28,098 20,928

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
格 gé- square
- frame
- rule
- (legal) case
- style
- character
- standard
- pattern
- (grammar) case
- (classical) to obstruct
- to hinder
- (classical) to arrive
- to come
- (classical) to investigate
- to study exhaustively
言 yán- words
- speech
- to say
- to talk

Other Words Containing 格言

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
格言 - - 19,748 28,098 20,928