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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 行尸走肉

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
行尸走肉 xíng shī zǒu ròu - walking corpse (idiom)
- zombie
- person who lives only on the material level

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
- - - 30,573 12,415

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
háng- (bound form) row; line
- (bound form) line of business; trade; profession
- (bound form) commercial firm
- (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age)
- (in data tables) row; (Tw) column
- classifier for rows or lines
héng- used in 道行[dao4heng2]
xíng- (bound form) to walk; to go; to travel
- (literary) trip; journey; visit
- (bound form) temporary; makeshift
- (bound form) current; in circulation
- (bound form) to do; to perform
- capable; competent
- all right; OK!; will do
- behavior; conduct (Taiwan pr. [xing4])
- (literary) about to; soon
shī- (literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies)
- (literary) to put a corpse on display (after execution)
- corpse (variant of 屍|尸[shi1])
shī- (bound form) corpse
zǒu- to walk
- to go
- to run
- to move (of vehicle)
- to visit
- to leave
- to go away
- to die (euph.)
- from
- through
- away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3])
- to change (shape, form, meaning)
ròu- meat
- flesh
- pulp (of a fruit)
- (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy
- (of a person) flabby
- irresolute
- Kangxi radical 130

Other Words Containing 行尸走肉

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo