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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 吃皇粮
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 吃皇粮 | chī huáng liáng | - lit. to eat from government coffers - to serve as a government employee - to live off government money |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | 84,703 | 67,793 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 吃 | chī | - to eat; to consume - to eat at (a cafeteria etc) - to eradicate; to destroy - to absorb - to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc) |
| 吃 | chī | - variant of 吃[chi1] |
| 皇 | huáng | - surname Huang |
| 皇 | huáng | - emperor - old variant of 惶[huang2] |
| 粮 | liáng | - grain - food - provisions - agricultural tax paid in grain |
Other Words Containing 吃皇粮
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 |
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