qīngzhuó
clarity and turbidity
- clarity and turbidity
- the degree of cleanliness or muddiness of water or other liquids
- good and bad
- metaphor for the distinction between the clear and the dark, the honest and the corrupt, or the superior and the inferior
- voiceless and voiced
- in linguistics, the distinction between voiceless sounds (where the vocal cords do not vibrate) and voiced sounds
- cosmic dualities
- the distinction between clear, light qi (associated with heaven) and heavy, murky qi (associated with earth) in classical cosmology
- pitch and timbre
- the distinction between clear, high-pitched sounds and heavy, low-pitched sounds in music
Frequency
- Written text
- 0.270 per million
Sources
- Frequency data
- BCC Corpus (BLCU)