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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 危言耸听

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
危言耸听 wēi yán sǒng tīng - frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk
- reds under the beds

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
- - 29,864 35,894 33,813

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
wēi- surname Wei
wēi- danger
- to endanger
- Taiwan pr. [wei2]
yán- words
- speech
- to say
- to talk
sǒng- to excite
- to raise up
- to shrug
- high
- lofty
- towering
yǐn- smile (archaic)
tīng- to listen to; to hear
- to heed; to obey
- a can (loanword from English "tin")
- classifier for canned beverages
- to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
- (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])

Other Words Containing 危言耸听

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
危言耸听 - - 29,864 35,894 33,813