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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 得寸进尺
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 得寸进尺 | dé cùn jìn chǐ | - lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains - give him an inch, and he'll want a mile |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 16,310 | 42,538 | 23,107 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 得 | dé | - to obtain - to get - to gain - to catch (a disease) - proper - suitable - proud - contented - to allow - to permit - ready - finished |
| 得 | de | - structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc |
| 得 | děi | - to have to - must - ought to - to need to |
| 寸 | cùn | - a unit of length - inch - thumb |
| 进 | jìn | - to go forward - to advance - to go in - to enter - to put in - to submit - to take in - to admit - (math.) base of a number system - classifier for sections in a building or residential compound |
| 尺 | chě | - one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3] |
| 尺 | chǐ | - a Chinese foot - one-third of a meter - a ruler - a tape-measure - one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine - CL:支[zhi1],把[ba3] |
Other Words Containing 得寸进尺
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 得寸进尺 | - | - | 16,310 | 42,538 | 23,107 |