八股 bāgǔ eight-part essay Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 八股 bāgǔ eight-part essay the stylized eight-part essay prescribed for imperial exams in the Ming and Qing dynasties cliché empty, rigid, or stereotyped writing or speech; platitudes inflexible (of behavior or outlook) conservative and sticking to old ways; pedantic or dogmatic Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.618 per million Cross-References Same as 八股文 bāgǔwén四书文 sìshūwén制艺 zhìyì时文 shíwénReferenced by 党八股 dǎngbāgǔ老八股 lǎobāgǔ Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
八股 bāgǔ eight-part essay the stylized eight-part essay prescribed for imperial exams in the Ming and Qing dynasties cliché empty, rigid, or stereotyped writing or speech; platitudes inflexible (of behavior or outlook) conservative and sticking to old ways; pedantic or dogmatic Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.618 per million Cross-References Same as 八股文 bāgǔwén四书文 sìshūwén制艺 zhìyì时文 shíwénReferenced by 党八股 dǎngbāgǔ老八股 lǎobāgǔ Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)