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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 聚沙成塔
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 聚沙成塔 | jù shā - chéng tǎ | - lit. many sand grains accumulate to form a tower (idiom) - fig. many little things add up to sth great |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 87,865 | 94,838 | 64,996 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 聚 | jù | - to assemble; to gather (transitive or intransitive) - (chemistry) poly- |
| 沙 | shā | - surname Sha |
| 沙 | shā | - granule - hoarse - raspy - sand - powder - CL:粒[li4] - abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia |
| 沙 | shà | - (dialect) to sift; to sieve |
| 成 | chéng | - surname Cheng - short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2du1] |
| 成 | chéng | - to succeed - to finish - to complete - to accomplish - to become - to turn into - to be all right - OK! - one tenth |
| 塔 | tǎ | - pagoda (abbr. of 塔婆[ta3po2], a loanword from Sanskrit stūpa); tower; pylon (CL:座[zuo4]) - (loanword) (pastry) tart |
| 塔 | tǎ | - old variant of 塔[ta3] |
Other Words Containing 聚沙成塔
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 聚沙成塔 | - | - | 87,865 | 94,838 | 64,996 |