式
shì HSK3

style

式 shì
style adjective
a particular style, type, or fashion

这套剑法一共有十八式，变化无穷。

zhè tào jiàn​fǎ yī​gòng yǒu shí​bā shì, biàn​huà wú​qióng.

This sword technique consists of eighteen forms with endless variations.

form adjective
a standardized form, pattern, or mathematical expression

这道代数式的解法一共有三种。

zhè dào dài​shù shì de jiě​fǎ yī​gòng yǒu sān zhǒng.

There are three ways to solve this algebraic expression.

Frequency
Character
Written text
303rd most common 735.3 per million
Movie subtitles
542nd most common 259.2 per million appears in 72% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
50.9 per million appears in 19% of films
Written text
99.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5F0F

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)