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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 层出不穷

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
层出不穷 céng chū bù qióng - more and more emerge
- innumerable succession
- breeding like flies (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
6 9 31,144 14,245 17,040

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
céng- to pile on top of one another
- layer; stratum
- floor (of a building); story
- (math.) sheaf
- classifier for layers
chū- to go out; to come out
- to arise; to occur
- to produce; to yield
- to go beyond; to exceed
- (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result)
- classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
chū- variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
- no; not so
- (bound form) not; un-
qióng- poor
- destitute
- to use up
- to exhaust
- thoroughly
- extremely
- (coll.) persistently and pointlessly

Other Words Containing 层出不穷

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
层出不穷 6 9 31,144 14,245 17,040