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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 大智若愚

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
大智若愚 dà zhì ruò yú - (idiom) great intelligence may appear to be stupidity

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
- - - 55,014 26,150

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]
zhì- (literary) wise; wisdom
- used in 般若[bo1re3]
- used in 蘭若|兰若[lan2re3]
ruò- to seem
- like
- as
- if
- to be stupid
- to cheat or deceive
- me or I (modest)

Other Words Containing 大智若愚

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo