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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 穷光蛋

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
穷光蛋 qióng guāng dàn - poor wretch
- pauper
- destitute man
- poverty-stricken peasant
- penniless good-for-nothing
- impecunious vagabond

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
- - 18,746 47,309 25,272

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
qióng- poor
- destitute
- to use up
- to exhaust
- thoroughly
- extremely
- (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
guāng- light; ray (CL:道[dao4])
- bright; shiny
- only; merely
- used up; finished
- to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
dàn- variant of 蜑[Dan4]
dàn- egg
- CL:個|个[ge4],打[da2]
- oval-shaped thing

Other Words Containing 穷光蛋

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
穷光蛋 - - 18,746 47,309 25,272