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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 打草惊蛇
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 打草惊蛇 | dǎ cǎo jīng shé | - lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom) - fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy - to punish sb as a warning to others |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 17,078 | 45,072 | 61,347 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 打 | dá | - (loanword) dozen - Taiwan pr. [da3] |
| 打 | dǎ | - to beat - to strike - to hit - to break - to type - to mix up - to build - to fight - to fetch - to make - to tie up - to issue - to shoot - to calculate - to play (a game) - since - from |
| 草 | cǎo | - grass - straw - manuscript - draft (of a document) - careless - rough - CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1] |
| 草 | cào | - variant of 肏[cao4] |
| 草 | cǎo | - variant of 草[cao3] |
| 惊 | jīng | - to startle - to be frightened - to be scared - alarm |
| 蛇 | shé | - snake - serpent - CL:條|条[tiao2] |
| 蛇 | yí | - used in 委蛇[wei1yi2] |
| 蛇 | shé | - variant of 蛇[she2] |
Other Words Containing 打草惊蛇
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 打草惊蛇 | - | - | 17,078 | 45,072 | 61,347 |