zhī​hū​zhě​yě

literary jargon

之乎者也 zhī​hū​zhě​yě
literary jargon
Common grammatical particles used in Classical Chinese; used to describe archaic or pedantic language that is overly formal or difficult to understand.
ineffectual talk
Empty talk or pretentious academic language that fails to address practical problems.

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Written text
0.121 per million

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)