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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 苦口

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
苦口 kǔ kǒu - lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口)
- fig. earnestly (of warning, advice)

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
- - - 75,166 40,984

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
苦 kǔ- bitter
- hardship
- pain
- to suffer
- to bring suffering to
- painstakingly
口 kǒu- mouth
- classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)
- classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Other Words Containing 苦口

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
苦口婆心 - - 50,822 38,090 33,886