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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 名士

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
名士 míng shì - (old) a person of literary talent; a celebrity (esp. a distinguished literary person having no official post)

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
- - 63,606 34,211 38,039

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
míng- name
- noun (part of speech)
- place (e.g. among winners)
- famous
- classifier for people
shì- surname Shi
shì- member of the senior ministerial class (old)
- scholar (old)
- bachelor
- honorific
- soldier
- noncommissioned officer
- specialist worker

Other Words Containing 名士

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
名士 - - 63,606 34,211 38,039