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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 起早贪黑

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
起早贪黑 qǐ zǎo tān hēi - to be industrious, rising early and going to bed late

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
- - 56,568 47,830 35,939

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- to rise
- to raise
- to get up
- to set out
- to start
- to appear
- to launch
- to initiate (action)
- to draft
- to establish
- to get (from a depot or counter)
- verb suffix, to start
- starting from (a time, place, price etc)
- classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
- classifier for groups: batch, group
zǎo- early
- morning
- Good morning!
- long ago
- prematurely
tān- to have a voracious desire for
- to covet
- greedy
- corrupt
hēi- abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]
hēi- black
- dark
- sinister
- secret
- shady
- illegal
- to hide (sth) away
- to vilify
- (loanword) to hack (computing)

Other Words Containing 起早贪黑

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
起早贪黑 - - 56,568 47,830 35,939