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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 赴汤蹈火

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
赴汤蹈火 fù tāng dǎo huǒ - lit. to jump into scalding water and plunge into raging fire (idiom)
- fig. to brave any danger
- to go to any lengths (for a noble cause)

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
- - 15,657 54,494 42,069

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- to go
- to visit (e.g. another country)
- to attend (a banquet etc)
tāng- surname Tang
shāng- rushing current
tāng- soup
- hot or boiling water
- decoction of medicinal herbs
- water in which sth has been boiled
dǎo- to tread on
- to trample
- to stamp
- to fulfill
- Taiwan pr. [dao4]
huǒ- surname Huo
huǒ- fire
- urgent
- ammunition
- fiery or flaming
- internal heat (Chinese medicine)
- hot (popular)
- classifier for military units (old)
- Kangxi radical 86

Other Words Containing 赴汤蹈火

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
赴汤蹈火 - - 15,657 54,494 42,069