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Definition(s) for: 丧家之犬

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
丧家之犬 sàng jiā zhī quǎn - lit. stray dog (idiom)
- fig. one who has nothing to rely on

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
- - 42,482 76,682 83,395

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
sāng- mourning
- funeral
- (old) corpse
sàng- to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc)
- to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc)
- to die
- disappointed
- discouraged
jiā- home
- family
- (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
- classifier for families or businesses
- refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
- noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian
- CL:個|个[ge4]
jiā- used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1ju4]
zhī- (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5])
- him
- her
- it
quǎn- dog
- Kangxi radical 94

Other Words Containing 丧家之犬

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
丧家之犬 - - 42,482 76,682 83,395