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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 大发雷霆

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
大发雷霆 dà fā léi tíng - to be furious
- to fly into a terrible rage

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
- - 14,585 41,929 37,639

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- big; large; great
- older (than another person)
- eldest (as in 大姐[da4jie3])
- greatly; freely; fully
- (dialect) father
- (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
dài- see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
- to send out
- to show (one's feeling)
- to issue
- to develop
- to make a bundle of money
- classifier for gunshots (rounds)
- hair
- Taiwan pr. [fa3]
léi- surname Lei
léi- thunder
- (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine
- (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound
- (Tw) (coll.) spoiler
- (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)
tíng- clap of thunder

Other Words Containing 大发雷霆

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
大发雷霆 - - 14,585 41,929 37,639