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Definition(s) for: 损公肥私

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
损公肥私 sǔn gōng féi sī - to damage the public interest for personal profit (idiom); personal profit at public expense
- venal and selfish behavior

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
- - - 73,100 108,279

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
sǔn- to decrease; to lose
- to damage; to harm
- (coll.) to ridicule; to deride
- (coll.) caustic; sarcastic; nasty; mean
- one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨
gōng- public
- collectively owned
- common
- international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar)
- make public
- fair
- just
- Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- honorable (gentlemen)
- father-in-law
- male (animal)
féi- fat
- fertile
- loose-fitting or large
- to fertilize
- to become rich by illegal means
- fertilizer
- manure
- personal
- private
- selfish

Other Words Containing 损公肥私

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo