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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 好高骛远

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
好高骛远 hào gāo wù yuǎn - to bite off more than one can chew (idiom)
- to aim too high

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
- - 45,353 58,145 38,607

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
hǎo- good
- appropriate; proper
- all right!
- (before a verb) easy to
- (before a verb) good to
- (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so
- (verb complement indicating completion)
- (of two people) close; on intimate terms
- (after a personal pronoun) hello
hào- to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
gāo- surname Gao
gāo- high
- tall
- above average
- loud
- your (honorific)
- (bound form) to rush about
- to strive for
yuǎn- far
- distant
- remote
- (intensifier in a comparison) by far
- much (lower etc)
yuàn- to distance oneself from (classical)

Other Words Containing 好高骛远

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
好高骛远 - - 45,353 58,145 38,607