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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 冤大头

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
冤大头 yuān dà tóu - spendthrift and foolish
- sb with more money than sense

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
- - 29,340 50,074 36,062

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
yuān- injustice
- grievance
- wrong
yuān- old variant of 冤[yuan1]
- big; large; great
- older (than another person)
- eldest (as in 大姐[da4jie3])
- greatly; freely; fully
- (dialect) father
- (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
dài- see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
tóu- head
- hair style
- the top
- end
- beginning or end
- a stub
- remnant
- chief
- boss
- side
- aspect
- first
- leading
- classifier for pigs or livestock
- CL:個|个[ge4]
tou- suffix for nouns

Other Words Containing 冤大头

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
冤大头 - - 29,340 50,074 36,062