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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 似曾相识

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
似曾相识 sì céng xiāng shí - déjà vu (the experience of seeing exactly the same situation a second time)
- seemingly familiar
- apparently already acquainted

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
- 8 13,034 25,060 13,688

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
shì- used in 似的[shi4de5]
- to seem
- to appear
- to resemble
- similar
- -like
- pseudo-
- (more) than
- old variant of 似[si4]
zēng- surname Zeng
céng- once
- already
- ever (in the past)
- former
- previously
- (past tense marker used before verb or clause)
zēng- great- (grandfather, grandchild etc)
xiāng- surname Xiang
xiāng- each other
- one another
- mutually
- fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])
xiàng- appearance
- portrait
- picture
- government minister
- (physics) phase
- (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features)
- to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)
shí- to know
- knowledge
- Taiwan pr. [shi4]
zhì- to record
- to write a footnote

Other Words Containing 似曾相识

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
似曾相识 - 8 13,034 25,060 13,688