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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 炉火纯青

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
炉火纯青 lú huǒ - chún qīng - lit. the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy) (idiom)
- fig. (of an art, a technique etc) brought to the point of perfection

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
- - 38,485 40,642 36,113

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- stove
- furnace
- variant of 爐|炉[lu2]
huǒ- surname Huo
huǒ- fire
- urgent
- ammunition
- fiery or flaming
- internal heat (Chinese medicine)
- hot (popular)
- classifier for military units (old)
- Kangxi radical 86
chún- pure
- simple
- unmixed
- genuine
qīng- abbr. for 青海[Qing1 hai3], Qinghai Province
qīng- green
- blue
- black
- youth
- young (of people)

Other Words Containing 炉火纯青

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
炉火纯青 - - 38,485 40,642 36,113