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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 化险为夷
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 化险为夷 | huà xiǎn wéi yí | - to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 9 | 27,455 | 43,727 | 45,095 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 化 | huā | - variant of 花[hua1] |
| 化 | huà | - to make into - to change into - -ization - to ... -ize - to transform - abbr. for 化學|化学[hua4 xue2] |
| 险 | xiǎn | - danger - dangerous - rugged |
| 为 | wéi | - as (in the capacity of) - to take sth as - to act as - to serve as - to behave as - to become - to be - to do - by (in the passive voice) |
| 为 | wèi | - because of - for - to |
| 为 | wéi | - variant of 為|为[wei2] |
| 为 | wèi | - variant of 為|为[wei4] |
| 夷 | yí | - non-Han people, esp. to the East of China - barbarians - to wipe out - to exterminate - to tear down - to raze |
Other Words Containing 化险为夷
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 化险为夷 | - | 9 | 27,455 | 43,727 | 45,095 |