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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 拿手好戏
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 拿手好戏 | ná shǒu hǎo xì | - the role an actor plays best (idiom) - (fig.) one's specialty - one's forte |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 19,917 | 51,324 | 47,629 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 拿 | ná | - to hold - to seize - to catch - to apprehend - to take - (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object) |
| 拿 | ná | - old variant of 拿[na2] |
| 拿 | ná | - variant of 拿[na2] |
| 手 | shǒu | - hand - (formal) to hold - person engaged in certain types of work - person skilled in certain types of work - personal(ly) - convenient - classifier for skill - CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1] |
| 好 | hǎo | - good - appropriate; proper - all right! - (before a verb) easy to - (before a verb) good to - (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so - (verb complement indicating completion) - (of two people) close; on intimate terms - (after a personal pronoun) hello |
| 好 | hào | - to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to |
| 戏 | xì | - variant of 戲|戏[xi4] |
| 戏 | xì | - trick - drama - play - show - CL:齣|出[chu1],場|场[chang3],臺|台[tai2] |
Other Words Containing 拿手好戏
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 拿手好戏 | - | - | 19,917 | 51,324 | 47,629 |