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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 游手好闲

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
游手好闲 yóu shǒu hào xián - to idle about

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
- - 11,929 43,441 28,040

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
游 yóu- surname You
游 yóu- to swim
- variant of 遊|游[you2]
游 yóu- to walk
- to tour
- to roam
- to travel
手 shǒu- hand
- (formal) to hold
- person engaged in certain types of work
- person skilled in certain types of work
- personal(ly)
- convenient
- classifier for skill
- CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
好 hǎo- good
- appropriate; proper
- all right!
- (before a verb) easy to
- (before a verb) good to
- (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so
- (verb complement indicating completion)
- (of two people) close; on intimate terms
- (after a personal pronoun) hello
好 hào- to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
闲 xián- enclosure
- (variant of 閒|闲[xian2]) idle
- unoccupied
- leisure
闲 xián- idle
- unoccupied
- leisure

Other Words Containing 游手好闲

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
游手好闲 - - 11,929 43,441 28,040