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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 半吊子

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
半吊子 bàn diào zi - dabbler
- smatterer
- tactless and impulsive person

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
- - 36,794 73,819 44,055

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
bàn- half
- semi-
- incomplete
- (after a number) and a half
diào- to suspend
- to hang up
- to hang a person
diào- a string of 100 cash (arch.)
- to lament
- to condole with
- variant of 吊[diao4]
- son
- child
- seed
- egg
- small thing
- 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat
- viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3deng3 jue2wei4]
- ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
- subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
zi- (noun suffix)

Other Words Containing 半吊子

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
半吊子 - - 36,794 73,819 44,055