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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 大吃一惊

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
大吃一惊 dà chī - yī jīng - (idiom) astounded; flabbergasted; taken aback

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
- 7 6,056 13,832 28,688

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]
chī- to eat; to consume
- to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
- to eradicate; to destroy
- to absorb
- to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
chī- variant of 吃[chi1]
- one
- single
- a (article)
- as soon as
- entire; whole; all; throughout
- "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
- also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
jīng- to startle
- to be frightened
- to be scared
- alarm

Other Words Containing 大吃一惊

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
大吃一惊 - 7 6,056 13,832 28,688