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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

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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
chén- to submerge
- to immerse
- to sink
- to keep down
- to lower
- to drop
- deep
- profound
- heavy
- surname Yu
- 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])
- to leave out
- to be missing
- to leave behind or forget to bring
- to lag or fall behind
lào- colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds
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
yàn- wild goose
yàn- variant of 雁[yan4]

Other Words Containing 沉鱼落雁

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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