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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 引蛇出洞

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
引蛇出洞 yǐn shé chū dòng - lit. to pull a snake from its hole
- to expose a malefactor (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
- - 36,580 82,549 68,264

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
yǐn- to draw (e.g. a bow)
- to pull
- to stretch sth
- to extend
- to lengthen
- to involve or implicate in
- to attract
- to lead
- to guide
- to leave
- to provide evidence or justification for
- old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
shé- snake
- serpent
- CL:條|条[tiao2]
- used in 委蛇[wei1yi2]
shé- variant of 蛇[she2]
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)
dòng- cave
- hole
- zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)
- CL:個|个[ge4]
tóng- used in 洪洞[Hong2tong2], a county in Shanxi

Other Words Containing 引蛇出洞

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
引蛇出洞 - - 36,580 82,549 68,264