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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 颠来倒去
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 颠来倒去 | diān lái dǎo qù | - to harp on - over and over - merely ring changes on a few terms |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 68,083 | - | 80,666 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 颠 | diān | - top (of the head) - apex - to fall forwards - inverted - to jolt |
| 来 | lái | - to come - (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) - hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2lai5]) - ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4gu3 yi3lai2]) - for the past (amount of time) - (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2shi4]) - (between two verbs) in order to - (after a round number) approximately - (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2de5lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1bu5lai2]) |
| 倒 | dǎo | - to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally - to fail; to go bankrupt - to overthrow - to change (trains or buses) - to move around - to resell at a profit |
| 倒 | dào | - to invert; to place upside down or frontside back - to pour out - to tip out; to dump - inverted; upside down; reversed - to go backward - contrary to what one might expect; but; yet |
| 去 | qù | - to go - to go to (a place) - (of a time etc) last - just passed - to send - to remove - to get rid of - to reduce - to be apart from in space or time - to die (euphemism) - to play (a part) - (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth - (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) - (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation) |
Other Words Containing 颠来倒去
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 颠来倒去 | - | - | 68,083 | - | 80,666 |