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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 东拉西扯

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
东拉西扯 dōng lā xī chě - to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently

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
- - - 70,890 56,111

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
dōng- surname Dong
dōng- east
- host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest)
- landlord
- to pull
- to play (a bowed instrument)
- to drag
- to draw
- to chat
- (coll.) to empty one's bowels
- to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
- used in 拉拉蛄[la4la4gu3]
- variant of 落[la4]
西 - the West
- abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2]
- Spanish
西 - west
chě- to pull
- to tear
- (of cloth, thread etc) to buy
- to chat
- to gossip
- (coll.) (Tw) ridiculous
- hokey
chě- variant of 扯[che3]
- to pull
- to tear

Other Words Containing 东拉西扯

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo