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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 只言片语

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
只言片语 zhī yán piàn yǔ - (idiom) just a word or two; a few isolated phrases

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
- - 38,861 46,782 31,626

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
zhī- variant of 隻|只[zhi1]
zhǐ- only; merely; just
zhǐ- variant of 只[zhi3]
zhī- grain that has begun to ripen
zhǐ- variant of 只[zhi3]
zhī- classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
yán- words
- speech
- to say
- to talk
piān- disk
- sheet
piàn- thin piece
- flake
- a slice
- film
- TV play
- to slice
- to carve thin
- partial
- incomplete
- one-sided
- classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water
- classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc
- used with numeral 一[yi1]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc
- Kangxi radical 91
- dialect
- language
- speech
- (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know

Other Words Containing 只言片语

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
只言片语 - - 38,861 46,782 31,626