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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 老实巴交

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
老实巴交 lǎo shi bā jiāo - (coll.) docile
- well-behaved
- biddable

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
- - 56,699 56,487 55,171

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
老 lǎo- prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity
- old (of people)
- venerable (person)
- experienced
- of long standing
- always
- all the time
- of the past
- very
- outdated
- (of meat etc) tough
实 shí- real
- true
- honest
- really
- solid
- fruit
- seed
- definitely
巴 bā- Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan)
- the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality
- surname Ba
- abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1le4si1tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1ji1si1tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1xi] (Brazil)
巴 bā- to long for
- to wish
- to cling to
- to stick to
- sth that sticks
- close to
- next to
- spread open
- informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4]
- bar (unit of pressure)
- nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail
交 jiāo- to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over
- to make friends
- (of lines) to intersect
- variant of 跤[jiao1]

Other Words Containing 老实巴交

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
老实巴交 - - 56,699 56,487 55,171