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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 光怪陆离

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
光怪陆离 guāng guài lù lí - monstrous and multicolored
- grotesque and variegated

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
- - 38,773 54,008 42,819

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
guāng- light; ray (CL:道[dao4])
- bright; shiny
- only; merely
- used up; finished
- to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
guài- bewildering
- odd
- strange
- uncanny
- devil
- monster
- to wonder at
- to blame
- quite
- rather
guài- variant of 怪[guai4]
- surname Lu
liù- six (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
- (bound form) land (as opposed to the sea)
chī- mythical beast (archaic)
- surname Li
- to leave
- to part from
- to be away from
- (in giving distances) from
- without (sth)
- independent of
- one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire
- ☲

Other Words Containing 光怪陆离

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
光怪陆离 - - 38,773 54,008 42,819