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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 乌烟瘴气
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 乌烟瘴气 | wū yān zhàng qì | - billowing smoke (idiom) - foul atmosphere - (fig.) murky atmosphere - in a turmoil |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 24,130 | 46,263 | 32,146 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 乌 | wū | - abbr. for country names that begin with 烏|乌[wu1]: Ukraine 烏克蘭|乌克兰[Wu1ke4lan2], Uzbekistan 烏茲別克斯坦|乌兹别克斯坦[Wu1zi1bie2ke4si1tan3] etc - surname Wu |
| 乌 | wū | - crow - black |
| 乌 | wù | - used in 烏拉|乌拉[wu4la5] - used in 烏拉草|乌拉草[wu4la5cao3] |
| 烟 | yān | - cigarette or pipe tobacco - CL:根[gen1] - smoke - mist - vapour - CL:縷|缕[lu:3] - tobacco plant - (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke |
| 烟 | yān | - tobacco (variant of 煙|烟[yan1]) |
| 瘴 | zhàng | - malaria - miasma |
| 气 | qì | - gas; air - smell - weather - to make angry; to annoy; to get angry - vital energy; qi |
Other Words Containing 乌烟瘴气
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 乌烟瘴气 | - | - | 24,130 | 46,263 | 32,146 |