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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 坐吃山空
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 坐吃山空 | zuò chī shān kōng | - lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom) - fig. to spend one's money without generating any income |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 98,815 | 79,765 | 69,990 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 坐 | zuò | - surname Zuo |
| 坐 | zuò | - to sit - to take a seat - to take (a bus, airplane etc) - to bear fruit - variant of 座[zuo4] |
| 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] |
| 山 | shān | - surname Shan |
| 山 | shān | - mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]) - (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on |
| 空 | kōng | - empty - air - sky - in vain |
| 空 | kòng | - to empty - vacant - unoccupied - space - leisure - free time |
Other Words Containing 坐吃山空
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 坐吃山空 | - | - | 98,815 | 79,765 | 69,990 |