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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 商纣王
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 商纣王 | shāng zhòu wáng | - King Zhou of Shang (11th century BC), notorious as a cruel tyrant |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | - | 85,955 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 商 | shāng | - Shang Dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BC) - surname Shang |
| 商 | shāng | - commerce - merchant - dealer - to consult - 2nd note in pentatonic scale - quotient (as in 智商[zhi4 shang1], intelligence quotient) |
| 纣 | zhòu | - Zhou, pejorative name given posthumously to the last king of the Shang dynasty, King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王[Shang1 Zhou4 Wang2] (the name refers to a crupper 紂|纣[zhou4], the piece of horse tack most likely to be soiled by the horse) |
| 纣 | zhòu | - crupper (harness strap running over a horse's hindquarters and under its tail) |
| 王 | wáng | - surname Wang |
| 王 | wáng | - king or monarch - best or strongest of its type - grand - great |
| 王 | wàng | - (literary) (of a monarch) to reign over (a kingdom) |
Other Words Containing 商纣王
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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