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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 凡夫俗子

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
凡夫俗子 fán fū sú zǐ - common people; ordinary folk

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
- - 32,279 59,556 40,727

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
fán- ordinary
- commonplace
- mundane
- temporal
- of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels)
- every
- all
- whatever
- altogether
- gist
- outline
- note of Chinese musical scale
fán- variant of 凡[fan2]
- husband
- man
- manual worker
- conscripted laborer (old)
- (classical) this, that
- he, she, they
- (exclamatory final particle)
- (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
- custom
- convention
- popular
- common
- coarse
- vulgar
- secular
- son
- child
- seed
- egg
- small thing
- 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat
- viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3deng3 jue2wei4]
- ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
- subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
zi- (noun suffix)

Other Words Containing 凡夫俗子

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
凡夫俗子 - - 32,279 59,556 40,727