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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 埋头苦干
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 埋头苦干 | mái tóu kǔ gàn | - to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work - to make an all-out effort - up to the neck in work |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 30,962 | 31,484 | 27,317 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 埋 | mái | - to bury |
| 埋 | mán | - used in 埋怨[man2 yuan4] |
| 头 | tóu | - head - hair style - the top - end - beginning or end - a stub - remnant - chief - boss - side - aspect - first - leading - classifier for pigs or livestock - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 头 | tou | - suffix for nouns |
| 苦 | kǔ | - bitter - hardship - pain - to suffer - to bring suffering to - painstakingly |
| 干 | gān | - surname Gan |
| 干 | gān | - (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with - one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian gan1] - (archaic) shield |
| 干 | gān | - old variant of 乾|干[gan1] |
| 干 | gān | - surname Gan |
| 干 | gān | - dry - dried food - empty; hollow - taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster - futile; in vain - (dialect) rude; blunt - (dialect) to cold-shoulder |
| 干 | gān | - variant of 乾|干[gan1] |
| 干 | gàn | - tree trunk - main part of sth - to manage - to work - to do - capable - cadre - to kill (slang) - to fuck (vulgar) - (coll.) pissed off - annoyed |
Other Words Containing 埋头苦干
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 埋头苦干 | - | - | 30,962 | 31,484 | 27,317 |