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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 改邪归正
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 改邪归正 | gǎi xié guī zhèng | - to mend one's ways (idiom) - to turn over a new leaf |
List Ranking for: 改邪归正
Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.
| HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2025) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 7 | 18,360 | 57,474 | 46,179 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 改 | gǎi | - to change - to alter - to transform - to correct |
| 邪 | xié | - demonic - iniquitous - nefarious - evil - unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine) - (coll.) strange - abnormal |
| 邪 | xié | - old variant of 邪[xie2] |
| 归 | guī | - surname Gui |
| 归 | guī | - to return - to go back to - to give back to - (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by - to belong to - to gather together - (used between two identical verbs) despite - to marry (of a woman) (old) - division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor |
| 正 | zhēng | - first month of the lunar year |
| 正 | zhèng | - straight - upright - proper - main - principal - to correct - to rectify - exactly - just (at that time) - right (in that place) - (math.) positive |
Other Words Containing 改邪归正
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 (2025) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 改邪归正 | - | 7 | 18,360 | 57,474 | 46,179 |