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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 丧钟

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
丧钟 sāng zhōng - knell

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
- - 38,782 70,237 54,218

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
zhōng- surname Zhong
zhōng- handleless cup; goblet
- (bound form) to concentrate (one's affection etc)
- variant of 鐘|钟[zhong1]
zhōng- a (large) bell (CL:架[jia4])
- clock (CL:座[zuo4])
- amount of time; o'clock (CL:點|点[dian3],分[fen1],秒[miao3]) (as in 三點鐘|三点钟[san1dian3zhong1] "three o'clock" or "three hours" or 五分鐘|五分钟[wu3fen1zhong1] "five minutes" etc)

Other Words Containing 丧钟

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
丧钟 - - 38,782 70,237 54,218