词汇

詞彙

cíhuì

noun HSK 4 #10,112

Meanings

Literally 'word collection' - vocabulary

学语言要多背词汇。

Xué yǔyán yào duō bèi cíhuì.

When learning a language, you need to memorize more vocabulary.

他的词汇量很大。

Tā de cíhuì liàng hěn dà.

He has a very large vocabulary.

这本书的词汇太难了。

Zhè běnshū de cíhuì tài nán le.

The vocabulary in this book is too difficult.

usage

词汇量 (vocabulary size) is one of the most discussed metrics in Chinese language learning. HSK 4 requires about 1,200 words, HSK 6 about 5,000.

memory

You're studying 词汇 right now. This word is meta: you are learning the word for 'vocabulary' while building your vocabulary.

词 cí

汇 huì