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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 骇人听闻

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
骇人听闻 hài rén tīng wén - shocking
- horrifying
- atrocious
- terrible

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
- 9 20,346 36,651 35,073

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
hài- to astonish
- to startle
- to hack (computing, loanword)
rén- person; people
- CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
yǐn- smile (archaic)
tīng- to listen to; to hear
- to heed; to obey
- a can (loanword from English "tin")
- classifier for canned beverages
- to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
- (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
wén- surname Wen
wén- to hear
- news
- well-known
- famous
- reputation
- fame
- to smell
- to sniff at

Other Words Containing 骇人听闻

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
骇人听闻 - 9 20,346 36,651 35,073