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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 一盘散沙

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
一盘散沙 yī pán sǎn shā - lit. like a sheet of loose sand
- fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 37,863 51,388 46,594

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
一 yī- one
- single
- a (article)
- as soon as
- entire; whole; all; throughout
- "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
- also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
盘 pán- tray; plate; dish
- (finance) (bound form) market prices
- (computing) (bound form) disk
- to coil (a rope, pigtail etc)
- to check; to examine; to investigate
- to transfer; to sell (property)
- to shift; to move (sth big and heavy)
- classifier for things resembling a plate or dish
- classifier for coils
- classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)
散 sǎn- scattered
- loose
- to come loose
- to fall apart
- leisurely
- powdered medicine
散 sàn- to scatter
- to break up (a meeting etc)
- to disperse
- to disseminate
- to dispel
- (coll.) to sack
散 sàn- variant of 散[san4]
沙 shā- surname Sha
沙 shā- granule
- hoarse
- raspy
- sand
- powder
- CL:粒[li4]
- abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia
沙 shà- (dialect) to sift; to sieve

Other Words Containing 一盘散沙

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
一盘散沙 - - 37,863 51,388 46,594