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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:

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 7,206 26,146 19,293

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]
jīng- to startle
- to be frightened
- to be scared
- alarm
xiǎo- small
- tiny
- few
- young
guài- bewildering
- odd
- strange
- uncanny
- devil
- monster
- to wonder at
- to blame
- quite
- rather
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 (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
大惊小怪 - 7 7,206 26,146 19,293