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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 起死回生
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 起死回生 | qǐ sǐ huí shēng | - to rise from the dead (idiom); fig. an unexpected recovery |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 10,629 | 33,129 | 34,113 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 起 | qǐ | - 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 |
| 死 | sǐ | - to die - impassable - uncrossable - inflexible - rigid - extremely - damned |
| 回 | huí | - to circle - to go back - to turn around - to answer - to return - to revolve - Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) - time - classifier for acts of a play - section or chapter (of a classic book) |
| 回 | huí | - to curve - to return - to revolve |
| 回 | huí | - variant of 迴|回[hui2] |
| 生 | shēng | - to be born - to give birth - life - to grow - raw - uncooked - student |
Other Words Containing 起死回生
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 起死回生 | - | - | 10,629 | 33,129 | 34,113 |