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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 鱼目混珠

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
鱼目混珠 yú mù hùn zhū - to pass off fish eyes for pearls
- to pass off fake products as genuine (idiom)

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
- - 58,694 57,033 71,998

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- surname Yu
- fish (CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3])
- used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鮑魚|鲍鱼[bao4yu2], alligators and crocodiles 鱷魚|鳄鱼[e4yu2] and octopi 章魚|章鱼[zhang1yu2])
- eye
- (literary) to look; to regard
- eye (of a net); mesh
- mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4])
- item; section
- list; catalogue
- (taxonomy) order
- name; title
hún- muddy; turbid (variant of 渾|浑[hun2])
- brainless; foolish (variant of 渾|浑[hun2])
- Taiwan pr. [hun4]
hùn- to mix
- to mingle
- muddled
- to drift along
- to muddle along
- to pass for
- to get along with sb
- thoughtless
- reckless
zhū- bead
- pearl
- CL:粒[li4],顆|颗[ke1]

Other Words Containing 鱼目混珠

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
鱼目混珠 - - 58,694 57,033 71,998