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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 不拘一格

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
不拘一格 bù jū yī gé - not stick to one pattern

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
- - 25,447 39,424 42,847

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- no; not so
- (bound form) not; un-
- to capture
- to restrain
- to constrain
- to adhere rigidly to
- inflexible
- 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
- square
- frame
- rule
- (legal) case
- style
- character
- standard
- pattern
- (grammar) case
- (classical) to obstruct
- to hinder
- (classical) to arrive
- to come
- (classical) to investigate
- to study exhaustively

Other Words Containing 不拘一格

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
不拘一格 - - 25,447 39,424 42,847