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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 透支

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
透支 tòu zhī - (banking) to overdraw
- to take out an overdraft
- an overdraft
- to overspend (i.e. expenditure in excess of revenue)
- (old) to draw one's wage in advance
- (fig.) to exhaust (one's enthusiasm, energy etc)
- to damage a natural resource through overuse

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
- 8 16,945 13,249 12,227

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
tòu- (bound form) to penetrate; to seep through
- to tell secretly; to leak
- thoroughly; through and through
- to appear; to show
zhī- surname Zhi
zhī- to support
- to sustain
- to erect
- to raise
- branch
- division
- to draw money
- classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions

Other Words Containing 透支

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
透支 - 8 16,945 13,249 12,227