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例lì行xíng公gōng事shì
  1. routine business; usual practice; mere formality

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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4
例
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

example, precedent, rule, case, instance

Pinyin
lì
Strokes
8
Frequency
24529 of 2500
Words starting with 例Words ending in 例Anywhere in a word
行
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(bound form) row; line, (bound form) line of business; trade; profession, (bound form) commercial firm, (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age), (in data tables) row; (Tw) column, classifier for rows or lines

Pinyin
háng
Strokes
6
Frequency
379 of 2500
Words starting with 行Words ending in 行Anywhere in a word
公
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

public, collectively owned, common, international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar), make public, fair, just, Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], honorable (gentlemen), father-in-law, male (animal)

Pinyin
gōng
Strokes
4
Frequency
10647 of 2500
Words starting with 公Words ending in 公Anywhere in a word
事
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

matter, thing, item, work, affair, CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]

Pinyin
shì
Strokes
8
Frequency
68 of 2500
Words starting with 事Words ending in 事Anywhere in a word