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Definition(s) for: 香格里拉

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
香格里拉 xiāng gé lǐ lā - Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth
- Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel

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
- - 20,153 20,283 12,475

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
香 xiāng- fragrant
- sweet smelling
- aromatic
- savory or appetizing
- (to eat) with relish
- (of sleep) sound
- perfume or spice
- joss or incense stick
- CL:根[gen1]
格 gé- square
- frame
- rule
- (legal) case
- style
- character
- standard
- pattern
- (grammar) case
- (classical) to obstruct
- to hinder
- (classical) to arrive
- to come
- (classical) to investigate
- to study exhaustively
里 lǐ- Li (surname)
里 lǐ- li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m
- neighborhood
- ancient administrative unit of 25 families
- (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
里 lǐ- variant of 裡|里[li3]
里 lǐ- lining
- interior
- inside
- internal
- also written 裏|里[li3]
拉 lā- to pull
- to play (a bowed instrument)
- to drag
- to draw
- to chat
- (coll.) to empty one's bowels
拉 lá- to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
拉 là- used in 拉拉蛄[la4la4gu3]
- variant of 落[la4]

Other Words Containing 香格里拉

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
香格里拉 - - 20,153 20,283 12,475