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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 匹夫

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
匹夫 pǐ fū - ordinary man
- ignorant person
- coarse fellow

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
- - 50,129 45,170 48,545

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- (bound form) matching; comparable to
- (bound form) alone; single; one of a pair
- classifier for horses, mules etc (Taiwan pr. [pi1])
- classifier for cloth: bolt
- horsepower
- variant of 匹[pi3]
- classifier for cloth: bolt
- husband
- man
- manual worker
- conscripted laborer (old)
- (classical) this, that
- he, she, they
- (exclamatory final particle)
- (initial particle, introduces an opinion)

Other Words Containing 匹夫

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
匹夫 - - 50,129 45,170 48,545