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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 扬长而去

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
扬长而去 yáng cháng ér qù - to swagger off
- to walk off (or drive off etc) without a second thought for those left behind

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
- - 30,731 30,341 37,480

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
yáng- abbr. for Yangzhou 揚州|扬州[Yang2zhou1] in Jiangsu
- surname Yang
yáng- to raise
- to hoist
- the action of tossing or winnowing
- scattering (in the wind)
- to flutter
- to propagate
yáng- variant of 揚|扬[yang2]
cháng- length
- long
- forever
- always
- constantly
zhǎng- chief
- head
- elder
- to grow
- to develop
- to increase
- to enhance
ér- and
- as well as
- and so
- but (not)
- yet (not)
- (indicates causal relation)
- (indicates change of state)
- (indicates contrast)
- to go
- to go to (a place)
- (of a time etc) last
- just passed
- to send
- to remove
- to get rid of
- to reduce
- to be apart from in space or time
- to die (euphemism)
- to play (a part)
- (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
- (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
- (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)

Other Words Containing 扬长而去

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
扬长而去 - - 30,731 30,341 37,480