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Definition(s) for: 暗渡陈仓

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
暗渡陈仓 àn dù chén cāng - lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu)
- fig. to feign one thing while doing another
- to cheat under cover of a diversion

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
- - 45,512 - -

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
àn- dark
- to turn dark
- secret; hidden
- (literary) confused; ignorant
àn- variant of 暗[an4]
àn- (literary) to close (a door)
- to eclipse
- confused; ignorant (variant of 暗[an4])
- dark (variant of 暗[an4])
- to cross
- to pass through
- to ferry
chén- surname Chen
- Chen (c. 1045 - 479 BC), a Zhou dynasty state
- Chen (557-589), one of the Southern Dynasties 南朝[Nan2 Chao2]
chén- (bound form) to lay out; to exhibit; to display
- (bound form) to narrate; to state; to explain; to tell
- old; stale
cāng- barn
- granary
- storehouse
- cabin
- hold (in ship)

Other Words Containing 暗渡陈仓

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
暗渡陈仓 - - 45,512 - -