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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 赶尽杀绝

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
赶尽杀绝 gǎn jìn shā jué - to kill to the last one (idiom)
- to exterminate
- to eradicate
- ruthless

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
- - 23,900 52,410 41,845

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
gǎn- to overtake; to catch up with
- to hurry; to rush
- to try to catch (the bus etc)
- to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away
- to avail oneself of (an opportunity)
- until; by (a certain time)
jǐn- to the greatest extent
- (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme
- to be within the limits of
- to give priority to
jìn- to use up
- to exhaust
- to end
- to finish
- to the utmost
- exhausted
- finished
- to the limit (of sth)
- all
- entirely
shā- to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack
- to weaken; to reduce
- (dialect) to smart
- (used after a verb) extremely
jué- to cut short
- extinct
- to disappear
- to vanish
- absolutely
- by no means
jué- variant of 絕|绝[jue2]

Other Words Containing 赶尽杀绝

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
赶尽杀绝 - - 23,900 52,410 41,845