词汇

詞彙

cíhuì

noun HSK 4 #10,112

Meanings

Literally 'word collection' - vocabulary

HSK 1

这本书的词汇太难了。

Zhè běnshū de cíhuì tài nán le.

The vocabulary in this book is too difficult.

HSK 2

学语言要多背词汇。

Xué yǔyán yào duō bèi cíhuì.

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

HSK 4

他的词汇量很大。

Tā de cíhuì liàng hěn dà.

He has a very large vocabulary.

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