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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 吃苦头
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 吃苦头 | chī kǔ tou | - to suffer - to suffer for one's actions - to pay dearly - to burn one's fingers |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 31,578 | 70,555 | 68,941 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 吃 | chī | - to eat; to consume - to eat at (a cafeteria etc) - to eradicate; to destroy - to absorb - to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc) |
| 吃 | chī | - variant of 吃[chi1] |
| 苦 | kǔ | - bitter - hardship - pain - to suffer - to bring suffering to - painstakingly |
| 头 | tóu | - head - hair style - the top - end - beginning or end - a stub - remnant - chief - boss - side - aspect - first - leading - classifier for pigs or livestock - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 头 | tou | - suffix for nouns |
Other Words Containing 吃苦头
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 吃苦头 | - | - | 31,578 | 70,555 | 68,941 |