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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 昙花一现
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 昙花一现 | tán huā yī xiàn | - lit. the night-blooming cactus shows once - flash in the pan (idiom) - short-lived |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 33,845 | 30,992 | 25,116 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 昙 | tán | - dark clouds |
| 花 | huā | - surname Hua |
| 花 | huā | - flower - blossom - CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4] - fancy pattern - florid - to spend (money, time) - (coll.) lecherous - lustful |
| 花 | huā | - old variant of 花[hua1] |
| 花 | huā | - variant of 花[hua1] - flower - blossom - also pr. [wei3] |
| 一 | yī | - one - single - a (article) - as soon as - entire; whole; all; throughout - "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) - also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit |
| 现 | xiàn | - to appear - present - now - existing - current |
Other Words Containing 昙花一现
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 昙花一现 | - | - | 33,845 | 30,992 | 25,116 |