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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 了不起

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
了不起 liǎo bu qǐ - amazing
- terrific
- extraordinary

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
5 4 2,202 9,552 5,992

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
le- (completed action marker)
- (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
- (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
liǎo- to finish
- (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4bu5liao3] "cannot forget")
- (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無|无[wu2] or 不[bu4]) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
- to understand clearly (variant of 瞭|了[liao3])
liǎo- (of eyes) bright
- clear-sighted
- to understand clearly
liào- unofficial variant of 瞭[liao4]
- no; not so
- (bound form) not; un-
- to rise
- to raise
- to get up
- to set out
- to start
- to appear
- to launch
- to initiate (action)
- to draft
- to establish
- to get (from a depot or counter)
- verb suffix, to start
- starting from (a time, place, price etc)
- classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
- classifier for groups: batch, group

Other Words Containing 了不起

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
了不起 5 4 2,202 9,552 5,992