Welcome to ChineseFrequencyDictionary.com. Enter a Chinese character or compound Chinese word to lookup. If a valid dictionary entry is found, frequency information will be shown below:

Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 大动干戈

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
大动干戈 dà dòng gān gē - lit. to go to war (idiom)
- fig. to make a big fuss over sth

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
- - 30,925 50,979 51,652

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
大 dà- big; large; great
- older (than another person)
- eldest (as in 大姐[da4jie3])
- greatly; freely; fully
- (dialect) father
- (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
大 dài- see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
动 dòng- (of sth) to move
- to set in movement
- to displace
- to touch
- to make use of
- to stir (emotions)
- to alter
- abbr. for 動詞|动词[dong4 ci2], verb
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
戈 gē- surname Ge
戈 gē- dagger-axe
- abbr. for 戈瑞[ge1 rui4]
- (Tw) abbr. for 戈雷[ge1 lei2]

Other Words Containing 大动干戈

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
大动干戈 - - 30,925 50,979 51,652