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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 今非昔比

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
今非昔比 jīn fēi xī bǐ - (idiom) things are very different now; times have changed

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
- - 27,381 39,735 40,749

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
jīn- now
- the present time
- current
- contemporary
- this (day, year etc)
fēi- abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa
fēi- to not be; not
- wrong; incorrect
- non-; un-; in-; de-
- to reproach; to blame
- (coll.) to insist on; simply must
- surname Xi
- former times
- the past
- Taiwan pr. [xi2]
- Belgium
- Belgian
- abbr. for 比利時|比利时[Bi3 li4 shi2]
- euphemistic variant of 屄[bi1]
- to compare
- (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun}
- ratio
- to gesture
- (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)

Other Words Containing 今非昔比

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
今非昔比 - - 27,381 39,735 40,749