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Definition(s) for: 风烛残年

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
风烛残年 fēng zhú cán nián - one's late days
- to have one foot in the grave

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
- - 53,739 69,329 43,556

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
fēng- wind
- news
- style
- custom
- manner
- CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]
zhú- candle
- (literary) to illuminate
cán- to destroy
- to spoil
- to ruin
- to injure
- cruel
- oppressive
- savage
- brutal
- incomplete
- disabled
- to remain
- to survive
- remnant
- surplus
nián- surname Nian
nián- year
- CL:個|个[ge4]
nián- grain
- harvest (old)
- variant of 年[nian2]

Other Words Containing 风烛残年

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
风烛残年 - - 53,739 69,329 43,556