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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 重男轻女
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 重男轻女 | zhòng nán qīng nǚ | - to value males and attach less importance to females (idiom) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | 48,556 | 34,956 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 重 | chóng | - to repeat - repetition - again - re- - classifier: layer |
| 重 | zhòng | - heavy - serious - to attach importance to |
| 男 | nán | - (bound form) male - baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位[wu3deng3 jue2wei4] |
| 轻 | qīng | - light - easy - gentle - soft - reckless - unimportant - frivolous - small in number - unstressed - neutral - to disparage |
| 女 | nǚ | - female - woman - daughter |
| 女 | rǔ | - old variant of 汝[ru3] |
Other Words Containing 重男轻女
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 |
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