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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 名落孙山
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 名落孙山 | míng luò sūn shān | - lit. to fall behind Sun Shan 孫山|孙山[Sun1 Shan1] (who came last in the imperial examination) (idiom) - fig. to fail an exam - to fall behind (in a competition) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 80,831 | 69,090 | 84,179 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 名 | míng | - name - noun (part of speech) - place (e.g. among winners) - famous - classifier for people |
| 落 | là | - to leave out - to be missing - to leave behind or forget to bring - to lag or fall behind |
| 落 | lào | - colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds |
| 落 | luò | - to fall or drop - (of the sun) to set - (of a tide) to go out - to lower - to decline or sink - to lag or fall behind - to fall onto - to rest with - to get or receive - to write down - whereabouts - settlement |
| 孙 | sūn | - surname Sun |
| 孙 | sūn | - grandson - descendant |
| 山 | shān | - surname Shan |
| 山 | shān | - mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]) - (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on |
Other Words Containing 名落孙山
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 名落孙山 | - | - | 80,831 | 69,090 | 84,179 |