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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 半路出家
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 半路出家 | bàn lù - chū jiā | - lit. to enter monastic life at a mature age (idiom) - fig. to change one's career; to take up a new line of work or specialization; to enter a profession from a different background |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 57,143 | 69,641 | 70,722 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 半 | bàn | - half - semi- - incomplete - (after a number) and a half |
| 路 | lù | - surname Lu |
| 路 | lù | - road (CL:條|条[tiao2]) - journey - route - line (bus etc) - sort; kind |
| 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) |
| 家 | jiā | - home - family - (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) - classifier for families or businesses - refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China - noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 家 | jiā | - used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1ju4] |
Other Words Containing 半路出家
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 半路出家 | - | - | 57,143 | 69,641 | 70,722 |