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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 神出鬼没
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 神出鬼没 | shén chū - guǐ mò | - lit. to appear and disappear unpredictably like a spirit or a ghost (idiom) - fig. elusive |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 23,245 | 48,087 | 47,808 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 神 | shén | - God |
| 神 | shén | - god; deity - supernatural; magical; mysterious - spirit; mind; energy - lively; expressive - look; expression - (coll.) awesome; amazing |
| 出 | chū | - to go out; to come out - to arise; to occur - to produce; to yield - to go beyond; to exceed - (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) - classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc |
| 出 | chū | - variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels) |
| 鬼 | guǐ | - disembodied spirit; ghost; devil - (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc - sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 詭|诡[gui3]) - one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy |
| 没 | méi | - (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not |
| 没 | mò | - drowned - to end - to die - to inundate |
Other Words Containing 神出鬼没
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 神出鬼没 | - | - | 23,245 | 48,087 | 47,808 |