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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 沉鱼落雁
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 沉鱼落雁 | chén yú luò yàn | - lit. fish sink, goose alights (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]); fig. female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 65,912 | 66,149 | 36,209 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 沉 | chén | - to submerge - to immerse - to sink - to keep down - to lower - to drop - deep - profound - heavy |
| 鱼 | yú | - surname Yu |
| 鱼 | yú | - fish (CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]) - used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鮑魚|鲍鱼[bao4yu2], alligators and crocodiles 鱷魚|鳄鱼[e4yu2] and octopi 章魚|章鱼[zhang1yu2]) |
| 落 | là | - to leave out - to be missing - to leave behind or forget to bring - to lag or fall behind |
| 落 | lào | - colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds |
| 落 | luò | - to fall or drop - (of the sun) to set - (of a tide) to go out - to lower - to decline or sink - to lag or fall behind - to fall onto - to rest with - to get or receive - to write down - whereabouts - settlement |
| 雁 | yàn | - wild goose |
| 雁 | yàn | - variant of 雁[yan4] |
Other Words Containing 沉鱼落雁
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 沉鱼落雁 | - | - | 65,912 | 66,149 | 36,209 |