箴言 zhēn yán

admonition; exhortation; dictum

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency 20545th word

Definitions

  1. 1. admonition
  2. 2. exhortation
  3. 3. dictum
  4. 4. the biblical Book of Proverbs

Characters

Character Meaning
箴 zhēn
to warn; to admonish; variant of 針zhēn
言 yán HSK 4
to say; to talk; speech