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Definition(s) for: 兴高采烈

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
兴高采烈 xìng gāo cǎi liè - happy and excited (idiom)
- in high spirits
- in great delight

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
6 9 20,312 22,126 23,178

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
xīng- surname Xing
xīng- to rise
- to flourish
- to become popular
- to start
- to encourage
- to get up
- (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect)
- maybe (dialect)
xìng- feeling or desire to do sth
- interest in sth
- excitement
gāo- surname Gao
gāo- high
- tall
- above average
- loud
- your (honorific)
cǎi- color
- complexion
- looks
- variant of 彩[cai3]
- variant of 採|采[cai3]
cài- used in 采邑[cai4yi4] and 采地[cai4di4]
cǎi- to pick
- to pluck
- to collect
- to select
- to choose
- to gather
liè- ardent
- intense
- fierce
- stern
- upright
- to give one's life for a noble cause
- exploits
- achievements

Other Words Containing 兴高采烈

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
兴高采烈 6 9 20,312 22,126 23,178