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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 洗心革面
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 洗心革面 | xǐ xīn gé miàn | - lit. to wash one's heart and renew one's face (idiom); to repent sincerely and mend one's mistaken ways - to turn over a new leaf |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | 64,018 | 42,237 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 洗 | xǐ | - to wash; to bathe - to develop (photographs) - to shuffle (cards etc) - to erase (a recording) |
| 心 | xīn | - heart - mind - intention - center - core - CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4] |
| 革 | gé | - animal hide - leather - to reform - to remove - to expel (from office) |
| 面 | miàn | - face - side - surface - aspect - top - classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc |
| 面 | miàn | - variant of 麵|面[mian4] |
| 面 | miàn | - flour - noodles - (of food) soft (not crunchy) - (slang) (of a person) ineffectual - spineless |
Other Words Containing 洗心革面
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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