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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 吞云吐雾

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
吞云吐雾 tūn yún tǔ wù - to swallow clouds and blow out fog (idiom)
- to blow cigarette or opium smoke

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
- - 42,164 64,631 50,556

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
tūn- to swallow
- to take
yún- (classical) to say
yún- surname Yun
- abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2nan2 Sheng3]
yún- cloud
- CL:朵[duo3]
- to spit
- to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc)
- to say
- to pour out (one's grievances)
- to vomit
- to throw up
- fog
- mist
- CL:場|场[chang2],陣|阵[zhen4]

Other Words Containing 吞云吐雾

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
吞云吐雾 - - 42,164 64,631 50,556