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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 浑水摸鱼
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 浑水摸鱼 | hún shuǐ mō yú | - to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 35,944 | 55,220 | 47,646 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 浑 | hún | - muddy; turbid - brainless; foolish - (bound form) simple; natural - (bound form) whole; entire; all over |
| 水 | shuǐ | - surname Shui |
| 水 | shuǐ | - water - (after a name) ... River - to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4shui3] and 水性[shui3xing4]) - (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy - (bound form) additional cost; extra income - classifier for washings of a garment |
| 摸 | mō | - to feel with the hand - to touch - to stroke - to grope - to steal - to abstract |
| 摸 | mó | - variant of 摹[mo2] |
| 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]) |
Other Words Containing 浑水摸鱼
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 浑水摸鱼 | - | - | 35,944 | 55,220 | 47,646 |