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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 身先士卒

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
身先士卒 shēn xiān shì zú - to fight at the head of one's troops
- (fig.) to take the lead

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
- - 50,948 45,960 57,732

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
shēn- body
- life
- oneself
- personally
- one's morality and conduct
- the main part of a structure or body
- pregnant
- classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset
- Kangxi radical 158
xiān- beforehand; first; earlier
- at first; originally
- for the time being; for now
- (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
shì- surname Shi
shì- member of the senior ministerial class (old)
- scholar (old)
- bachelor
- honorific
- soldier
- noncommissioned officer
- specialist worker
- variant of 猝[cu4]
- soldier
- servant
- to finish
- to die
- finally
- at last
- pawn in Chinese chess
- variant of 卒[zu2]

Other Words Containing 身先士卒

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
身先士卒 - - 50,948 45,960 57,732