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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 三七二十一

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
三七二十一 sān qī èr shí yī - three sevens are twenty-one (idiom)
- the facts of the matter
- the actual situation

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
- - 35,511 - -

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
sān- surname San
sān- three
- 3
- seven
- 7
èr- two
- 2
- (Beijing dialect) stupid
shí- ten
- 10
- 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

Other Words Containing 三七二十一

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
三七二十一 - - 35,511 - -
不管三七二十一 - - 72,380 60,678 47,584