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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 空前绝后

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
空前绝后 kōng qián jué hòu - unprecedented and never to be duplicated
- the first and the last
- unmatched
- unique

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
6 - 27,991 58,349 44,032

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
空 kōng- empty
- air
- sky
- in vain
空 kòng- to empty
- vacant
- unoccupied
- space
- leisure
- free time
前 qián- front
- forward
- ahead
- first
- top (followed by a number)
- future
- ago
- before
- BC (e.g. 前293年)
- former
- formerly
绝 jué- to cut short
- extinct
- to disappear
- to vanish
- absolutely
- by no means
绝 jué- variant of 絕|绝[jue2]
后 hòu- surname Hou
后 hòu- empress
- queen
- (archaic) monarch
- ruler
后 hòu- back
- behind
- rear
- afterwards
- after
- later
- post-

Other Words Containing 空前绝后

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
空前绝后 6 - 27,991 58,349 44,032