則
zé HSK7

rule

则 (則) zé
but; then adverb
literary conjunction used to express contrast or consequence between clauses

美则美矣，但还不够完善。

měi zé měi yǐ, dàn hái bù gòu wán​shàn.

It is beautiful, but not yet perfect.

classifier measure word
measure word for short pieces of writing such as news, jokes, or fables

我今天在报上看到一则新闻。

wǒ jīn​tiān zài bào shàng kàn​dào yī zé xīn​wén.

I saw a piece of news in the paper today.

rule; standard noun
a standard, norm, or principle to follow

我们要以此为则，规范自己的日常行为。

wǒ​men yào yǐ cǐ wéi zé, guī​fàn zì​jǐ de rì​cháng xíng​wéi.

We should take this as a rule to regulate our daily behavior.

to follow conjunction
to imitate or take as a model

其言行足以则。

qí yán​xíng zú​yǐ zé.

His words and deeds are worthy of being a model.

Frequency
Character
Written text
284th most common 770.2 per million
Movie subtitles
723rd most common 177.4 per million appears in 60% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
46.8 per million appears in 18% of films
Written text
433.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
则
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+5247

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