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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 食古不化
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 食古不化 | shí gǔ bù huà | - to swallow ancient learning without digesting it (idiom) - to be pedantic without having a mastery of one's subject |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 50,767 | - | 85,003 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 食 | shí | - to eat - food - animal feed - eclipse |
| 食 | sì | - to feed (a person or animal) |
| 古 | gǔ | - surname Gu |
| 古 | gǔ | - ancient - old - paleo- |
| 不 | bù | - no; not so - (bound form) not; un- |
| 化 | huā | - variant of 花[hua1] |
| 化 | huà | - to make into - to change into - -ization - to ... -ize - to transform - abbr. for 化學|化学[hua4 xue2] |
Other Words Containing 食古不化
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 食古不化 | - | - | 50,767 | - | 85,003 |