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Definition(s) for: 患难之交

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
患难之交 huàn nàn zhī jiāo - a friend in times of tribulations (idiom); a friend in need is a friend indeed

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
- - 82,886 - 91,348

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
huàn- to suffer (from illness)
- to contract (a disease)
- misfortune
- trouble
- danger
- worry
nán- difficult (to...)
- problem
- difficulty
- difficult
- not good
nàn- disaster
- distress
- to scold
zhī- (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5])
- him
- her
- it
jiāo- to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over
- to make friends
- (of lines) to intersect
- variant of 跤[jiao1]

Other Words Containing 患难之交

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
患难之交 - - 82,886 - 91,348