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Definition(s) for: 里应外合

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
里应外合 lǐ yìng wài hé - to coordinate outside and inside offensives (idiom)
- (fig.) to act together

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
- - - 55,782 56,172

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- Li (surname)
- li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m
- neighborhood
- ancient administrative unit of 25 families
- (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
- variant of 裡|里[li3]
- lining
- interior
- inside
- internal
- also written 裏|里[li3]
yīng- surname Ying
- Taiwan pr. [Ying4]
yīng- to agree (to do sth)
- should
- ought to
- must
- (legal) shall
yìng- to answer
- to respond
- to comply with
- to deal or cope with
wài- outside
- in addition
- foreign
- external
- 100 ml
- one-tenth of a peck
- measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗
- to close
- to join
- to fit
- to be equal to
- whole
- together
- round (in battle)
- conjunction (astronomy)
- 1st note of pentatonic scale
- old variant of 盒[he2]
- variant of 合[he2]

Other Words Containing 里应外合

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo