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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 望洋兴叹
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 望洋兴叹 | wàng yáng - xīng tàn | - lit. to gaze at the ocean and lament one's inadequacy (idiom) - fig. to feel powerless and incompetent (to perform a task) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | 74,457 | 70,914 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 望 | wàng | - full moon - to hope - to expect - to visit - to gaze (into the distance) - to look towards - towards |
| 望 | wàng | - 15th day of month (lunar calendar) - old variant of 望[wang4] |
| 洋 | yáng | - ocean - vast - foreign - silver dollar or coin |
| 兴 | xīng | - surname Xing |
| 兴 | xīng | - to rise - to flourish - to become popular - to start - to encourage - to get up - (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect) - maybe (dialect) |
| 兴 | xìng | - feeling or desire to do sth - interest in sth - excitement |
| 叹 | tàn | - to sigh - to exclaim |
| 叹 | tàn | - variant of 嘆|叹[tan4] |
Other Words Containing 望洋兴叹
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 |
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