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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 落后

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
落后 luò hòu - to fall behind
- to lag (in technology etc)
- backward
- to retrogress

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
5 3 4,978 2,666 6,393

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- to leave out
- to be missing
- to leave behind or forget to bring
- to lag or fall behind
lào- colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds
luò- to fall or drop
- (of the sun) to set
- (of a tide) to go out
- to lower
- to decline or sink
- to lag or fall behind
- to fall onto
- to rest with
- to get or receive
- to write down
- whereabouts
- settlement
hòu- surname Hou
hòu- empress
- queen
- (archaic) monarch
- ruler
hòu- back
- behind
- rear
- afterwards
- after
- later
- post-

Other Words Containing 落后

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
落后 5 3 4,978 2,666 6,393