category 03 · idioms · 成語

成語 Four words. A thousand years.

Each chéngyǔ is a tiny capsule of classical literature condensed into four characters — made findable by sound and shape, readable across three scripts, and traversable by the semantic kinships that 384-d embeddings reveal.

32,404 idioms canonical
trilingual fields
384-d semantic vectors
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Idiom Catalog

The hero detail page — trilingual names, pronunciation, rich meaning, origin, examples, and a cosine-similarity “more like this” rail.

detail · primary/idioms/catalog
IDIOM-002concept · soon
Browse by Sound

A–Z pinyin + 注音 zhuyin directories — click a letter, see its entries.

browse · directory— concept
IDIOM-003concept · soon
Pattern Gallery

The visually-rhythmic minority — AABB 疊字, ABAC, ABCB… ~1,800 idioms by shape.

browse · niche— concept
IDIOM-004concept · later
Theme Explorer

Faceted browse on the 7 semantic-tag families — animals, war, excess, moral lessons.

browse · facets— concept
IDIOM-005concept · later
Origin Tales

The literary deep-dive — narrative story, classical text with glosses, ctext.org links.

reader · classics— concept
IDIOM-006concept · later
Idiom Flashcards

Spaced-repetition (FSRS). Front: idiom + pinyin. Back: meaning + example.

learn— concept
IDIOM-007concept · later
Riddle Quiz

Guess-the-idiom from a 謎語 or 歇後語. Antonyms and synonyms double as tight distractors.

game— concept
IDIOM-008concept · later
Discovery Graph

A force-directed map of semantic neighbours — drift idiom to idiom through embedding space.

explore · graph— concept
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