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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 翻江倒海
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 翻江倒海 | fān jiāng dǎo hǎi | - lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) - fig. overwhelming - earth-shattering - in a spectacular mess |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 34,541 | 48,710 | 27,899 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 翻 | fān | - to turn over - to flip over - to overturn - to rummage through - to translate - to decode - to double - to climb over or into - to cross |
| 翻 | fān | - variant of 翻[fan1] |
| 江 | jiāng | - surname Jiang |
| 江 | jiāng | - river - CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4] |
| 倒 | dǎo | - to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally - to fail; to go bankrupt - to overthrow - to change (trains or buses) - to move around - to resell at a profit |
| 倒 | dào | - to invert; to place upside down or frontside back - to pour out - to tip out; to dump - inverted; upside down; reversed - to go backward - contrary to what one might expect; but; yet |
| 海 | hǎi | - surname Hai |
| 海 | hǎi | - ocean - sea - CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4] - great number of people or things - (dialect) numerous |
Other Words Containing 翻江倒海
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 翻江倒海 | - | - | 34,541 | 48,710 | 27,899 |