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Definition(s) for: 一落千丈

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
一落千丈 yī luò qiān zhàng - lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
- fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
- to take a dive

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
- - 24,578 38,879 44,522

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- 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
- to leave out
- to be missing
- to leave behind or forget to bring
- to lag or fall behind
lào- colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds
luò- to fall or drop
- (of the sun) to set
- (of a tide) to go out
- to lower
- to decline or sink
- to lag or fall behind
- to fall onto
- to rest with
- to get or receive
- to write down
- whereabouts
- settlement
qiān- thousand
qiān- used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1qian1]
zhàng- measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m)
- to measure
- husband
- polite appellation for an older male

Other Words Containing 一落千丈

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
一落千丈 - - 24,578 38,879 44,522