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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 眼中钉
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 眼中钉 | yǎn zhōng dīng | - a thorn in one's side |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 19,708 | 49,148 | 59,131 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 眼 | yǎn | - eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]) - (often used with 一[yi1]) a look; a glance - small hole - (bound form) salient point - classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc |
| 中 | zhōng | - (bound form) China; Chinese - surname Zhong |
| 中 | zhōng | - within; among; in - middle; center - while (doing sth); during - (dialect) OK; all right |
| 中 | zhòng | - to hit (the mark) - to be hit by - to suffer - to win (a prize, a lottery) |
| 钉 | dīng | - nail - to follow closely - to keep at sb (to do sth) - variant of 盯[ding1] |
| 钉 | dìng | - to join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points - to nail - to pin - to staple - to sew on |
Other Words Containing 眼中钉
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 眼中钉 | - | - | 19,708 | 49,148 | 59,131 |