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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 前仰后合

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
前仰后合 qián yǎng hòu hé - to sway to and fro
- to rock back and forth

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
- 9 - 61,179 56,554

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
qián- front
- forward
- ahead
- first
- top (followed by a number)
- future
- ago
- before
- BC (e.g. 前293年)
- former
- formerly
yǎng- surname Yang
yǎng- to face upward
- to look up
- to admire
- to rely on
hòu- surname Hou
hòu- empress
- queen
- (archaic) monarch
- ruler
hòu- back
- behind
- rear
- afterwards
- after
- later
- post-
- 100 ml
- one-tenth of a peck
- measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗
- to close
- to join
- to fit
- to be equal to
- whole
- together
- round (in battle)
- conjunction (astronomy)
- 1st note of pentatonic scale
- old variant of 盒[he2]
- variant of 合[he2]

Other Words Containing 前仰后合

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo