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Definition(s) for: 韬光养晦

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
韬光养晦 tāo guāng yǎng huì - to conceal one's strengths and bide one's time (idiom)
- to hide one's light under a bushel

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
- - 75,952 48,917 25,735

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
tāo- bow case or scabbard
- to hide
- military strategy
guāng- light; ray (CL:道[dao4])
- bright; shiny
- only; merely
- used up; finished
- to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
yǎng- to raise (animals)
- to bring up (children)
- to keep (pets)
- to support
- to give birth
huì- (bound form) last day of a lunar month
- (bound form) dark; gloomy
- (literary) night

Other Words Containing 韬光养晦

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
韬光养晦 - - 75,952 48,917 25,735