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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 大惊小怪
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 大惊小怪 | dà jīng xiǎo guài | - to make a fuss about nothing (idiom) |
List Ranking for: 大惊小怪
Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.
| HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2025) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 7 | 7,206 | 26,146 | 19,293 |
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] |
| 惊 | jīng | - to startle - to be frightened - to be scared - alarm |
| 小 | xiǎo | - small - tiny - few - young |
| 怪 | guài | - bewildering - odd - strange - uncanny - devil - monster - to wonder at - to blame - quite - rather |
| 怪 | guài | - variant of 怪[guai4] |
Other Words Containing 大惊小怪
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 (2025) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 大惊小怪 | - | 7 | 7,206 | 26,146 | 19,293 |