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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 凶多吉少
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 凶多吉少 | xiōng duō jí shǎo | - lit. everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom) - fig. inauspicious; everything points to disaster |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 35,270 | 40,793 | 46,094 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 凶 | xiōng | - vicious - fierce - ominous - inauspicious - famine - variant of 兇|凶[xiong1] |
| 凶 | xiōng | - terrible - fearful |
| 多 | duō | - many; much; more; a lot of - too many; in excess - (after a numeral) ... odd - how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]) - (bound form) multi-; poly- |
| 吉 | jí | - surname Ji - abbr. for Jilin 吉林省[Ji2lin2 Sheng3] |
| 吉 | jí | - lucky - giga- (meaning billion or 10^9) |
| 少 | shǎo | - few - less - to lack - to be missing - to stop (doing sth) - seldom |
| 少 | shào | - young |
Other Words Containing 凶多吉少
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 凶多吉少 | - | - | 35,270 | 40,793 | 46,094 |