kazelee wrote:

http://home.earthlink.net/~4jword/index3.htm

Looks interesting. Just wondering how a sentence nub can fit these in at the moment.

Finding sentences using 四字熟語 can't be that hard, they are fairly popular. I know wikipedia has a few sentences for the most popular ones, though it's of course doubtful how good the sentences on wikipedia are.

I once added a frequency rating to the three-thousand odd 四字熟語 on Haitani's list (Kazelee's link, above), i.e. I rated them all from A to F where:

A = very common, nearly all Japanese adults know it
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F = Nobody knows it

It's not perfect, but is still a useful guide. (If you want a copy of the file, email me)


For Example sentences with English translations, check out the following:

1) ALC approx 300 common 四字熟語

2) 118 四字熟語

For my own use, I compiled data from the above into single files.

Last edited by Katsuo (2008 September 25, 12:15 am)

kazelee wrote:

Did you compile these by hand or did you use some sort of program?

A mixture. I wrote a few scripts to help with some of the compiling. The frequency rating was done by a script.

Could you email it to me too.

13ryan at gmail.com

Thanks so much.

鰹さん，could you possibly upload your file to somewhere like rapidshare where all members may download it? I know I would also benefit from such a file as I have been studying 4-letter compound idiomatic expressions somewhat haphazardly over the years so it would be good to see which ones I am missing from my deck (so to speak).

thanks is advanced

yorkii

Did someone compiled the http://www.linkage-club.co.jp/Material/Jukugo.htm sentences?

mentat_kgs wrote:

Did someone compiled the http://www.linkage-club.co.jp/Material/Jukugo.htm sentences?

That's the one I linked to above. I called it "118 四字熟語" dictionary just because that's how many idioms are in it. (So you should already have that data in the file I sent).