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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 大海捞针
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 大海捞针 | dà hǎi lāo zhēn | - lit. to fish a needle from the sea - to find a needle in a haystack (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 17,487 | 58,802 | 46,223 |
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] |
| 海 | hǎi | - surname Hai |
| 海 | hǎi | - ocean - sea - CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4] - great number of people or things - (dialect) numerous |
| 捞 | lāo | - to fish up - to dredge up |
| 针 | zhēn | - needle - pin - injection - stitch - CL:根[gen1],支[zhi1] |
| 针 | zhēn | - variant of 針|针[zhen1], needle |
Other Words Containing 大海捞针
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 大海捞针 | - | - | 17,487 | 58,802 | 46,223 |