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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 排山倒海
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 排山倒海 | pái shān dǎo hǎi | - lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering - fig. gigantic - of spectacular significance |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 66,747 | 36,088 | 30,621 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 排 | pái | - a row - a line - to set in order - to arrange - to line up - to eliminate - to drain - to push open - platoon - raft - classifier for lines, rows etc |
| 山 | shān | - surname Shan |
| 山 | shān | - mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]) - (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on |
| 倒 | dǎo | - to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally - to fail; to go bankrupt - to overthrow - to change (trains or buses) - to move around - to resell at a profit |
| 倒 | dào | - to invert; to place upside down or frontside back - to pour out - to tip out; to dump - inverted; upside down; reversed - to go backward - contrary to what one might expect; but; yet |
| 海 | hǎi | - surname Hai |
| 海 | hǎi | - ocean - sea - CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4] - great number of people or things - (dialect) numerous |
Other Words Containing 排山倒海
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 排山倒海 | - | - | 66,747 | 36,088 | 30,621 |