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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 初出茅庐
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 初出茅庐 | chū chū máo lú | - venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom) - young and inexperienced - novice - greenhorn |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 33,478 | 46,506 | 46,273 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 初 | chū | - at first - (at the) beginning - first - junior - basic |
| 出 | chū | - to go out; to come out - to arise; to occur - to produce; to yield - to go beyond; to exceed - (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) - classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc |
| 出 | chū | - variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels) |
| 茅 | máo | - surname Mao |
| 茅 | máo | - reeds - rushes |
| 庐 | lú | - surname Lu - Luzhou or Lu Prefecture 廬州|庐州[Lu2 Zhou1], a prefecture between the 6th and 13th centuries in present-day Anhui - Mount Lu 廬山|庐山[Lu2 Shan1] in Jiangxi Province |
| 庐 | lú | - hut |
Other Words Containing 初出茅庐
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 初出茅庐 | - | - | 33,478 | 46,506 | 46,273 |