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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 故弄玄虚

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
故弄玄虚 gù nòng xuán xū - deliberately mystifying
- to make sth unnecessarily complicated

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
- - 39,123 52,496 45,766

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- happening
- instance
- reason
- cause
- intentional
- former
- old
- friend
- therefore
- hence
- (of people) to die, dead
lòng- lane
- alley
nòng- to do
- to manage
- to handle
- to play with
- to fool with
- to mess with
- to fix
- to toy with
nòng- old variant of 弄[nong4]
lòng- variant of 弄[long4]
xuán- black
- mysterious
- emptiness
- void
- abstract theory or guiding principles
- empty or unoccupied
- diffident or timid
- false
- humble or modest
- (of health) weak
- virtual
- in vain

Other Words Containing 故弄玄虚

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
故弄玄虚 - - 39,123 52,496 45,766