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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 家喻户晓

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
家喻户晓 jiā yù hù xiǎo - understood by everyone (idiom); well known
- a household name

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
6 9 20,580 19,414 33,516

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
jiā- home
- family
- (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
- classifier for families or businesses
- refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
- noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian
- CL:個|个[ge4]
jiā- used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1ju4]
- surname Yu
- to describe sth as
- an analogy
- a simile
- a metaphor
- an allegory
- a household
- door
- family
xiǎo- dawn
- daybreak
- to know
- to let sb know
- to make explicit

Other Words Containing 家喻户晓

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
家喻户晓 6 9 20,580 19,414 33,516