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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 士为知己者死
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | 97,890 | 73,783 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 士 | shì | - surname Shi |
| 士 | shì | - member of the senior ministerial class (old) - scholar (old) - bachelor - honorific - soldier - noncommissioned officer - specialist worker |
| 为 | wéi | - as (in the capacity of) - to take sth as - to act as - to serve as - to behave as - to become - to be - to do - by (in the passive voice) |
| 为 | wèi | - because of - for - to |
| 为 | wéi | - variant of 為|为[wei2] |
| 为 | wèi | - variant of 為|为[wei4] |
| 知 | zhī | - to know - to be aware |
| 己 | jǐ | - self - oneself - sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] - sixth in order - letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc - hexa |
| 者 | zhě | - (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... - (after a noun) person involved in ... - -er - -ist - (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) - (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) - (old) (used at the end of a command) - (old) this |
| 死 | sǐ | - to die - impassable - uncrossable - inflexible - rigid - extremely - damned |
Other Words Containing 士为知己者死
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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