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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 泛泛之交

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
泛泛之交 fàn fàn zhī jiāo - nodding acquaintance
- slight familiarity

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
- - - 77,907 34,776

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
fàn- (bound form) general
- non-specific
- extensive
- pan-
- to flood
- (literary) to float about
- to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc)
fàn- variant of 泛[fan4]
fàn- variant of 泛[fan4]
fàn- (bound form) general
- non-specific
- extensive
- pan-
- to flood
- (literary) to float about
- to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc)
fàn- variant of 泛[fan4]
fàn- variant of 泛[fan4]
zhī- (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5])
- him
- her
- it
jiāo- to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over
- to make friends
- (of lines) to intersect
- variant of 跤[jiao1]

Other Words Containing 泛泛之交

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo