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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 叶公好龙
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 叶公好龙 | yè gōng hào lóng | - lit. Lord Ye's passion for dragons (idiom) - fig. to pretend to be fond of sth while actually fearing it - ostensible fondness of sth one really fears |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | 91,563 | 59,436 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 叶 | xié | - to be in harmony |
| 叶 | yè | - surname Ye |
| 叶 | yè | - leaf - page - lobe - (historical) period - classifier for small boats |
| 公 | gōng | - public - collectively owned - common - international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) - make public - fair - just - Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] - honorable (gentlemen) - father-in-law - male (animal) |
| 好 | hǎo | - good - appropriate; proper - all right! - (before a verb) easy to - (before a verb) good to - (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so - (verb complement indicating completion) - (of two people) close; on intimate terms - (after a personal pronoun) hello |
| 好 | hào | - to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to |
| 龙 | lóng | - surname Long |
| 龙 | lóng | - Chinese dragon; loong - (fig.) emperor - dragon - (bound form) dinosaur |
Other Words Containing 叶公好龙
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 |
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