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之乎者也
zhī​hū​zhě​yě

archaisms

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
之乎者也 zhī​hū​zhě​yě
archaisms pronoun
archaic, pedantic, or overly formal language
classical particles pronoun
the four grammatical particles used in Classical Chinese (之 zhī, 乎 hū, 者 zhě, and 也 yě)

Frequency

Written text
0.121 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)