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Definition(s) for: 兵败如山倒

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
兵败如山倒 bīng bài rú shān dǎo - troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse

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
- - - 77,953 86,453

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
bīng- soldiers
- a force
- an army
- weapons
- arms
- military
- warlike
- CL:個|个[ge4]
bài- to defeat
- to damage
- to lose (to an opponent)
- to fail
- to wither
- as
- as if
- such as
shān- surname Shan
shān- mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4])
- (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
dǎo- to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally
- to fail; to go bankrupt
- to overthrow
- to change (trains or buses)
- to move around
- to resell at a profit
dào- to invert; to place upside down or frontside back
- to pour out
- to tip out; to dump
- inverted; upside down; reversed
- to go backward
- contrary to what one might expect; but; yet

Other Words Containing 兵败如山倒

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo