文明
wén​míng HSK3

civilization

文明 wén​míng
civilization noun
a stage of human social development and organization; culture in a historical or archaeological context

古埃及是世界四大文明古国之一。

Gǔ'āi​jí shì shì​jiè sì dà wén​míng gǔ​guó zhī​yī.

Ancient Egypt is one of the four great ancient civilizations of the world.

civilized adjective
polite, well-mannered, or showing a high level of social and cultural development

在公共场合讲话要文明。

zài gōng​gòng chǎng​hé jiǎng​huà yào wén​míng.

One should speak civilly in public.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
12.5 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
72.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3

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Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)