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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
xiōng- vicious
- fierce
- ominous
- inauspicious
- famine
- variant of 兇|凶[xiong1]
xiōng- terrible
- fearful
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-
- surname Ji
- abbr. for Jilin 吉林省[Ji2lin2 Sheng3]
- lucky
- giga- (meaning billion or 10^9)
shǎo- few
- less
- to lack
- to be missing
- to stop (doing sth)
- seldom
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