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Definition(s) for: 天下乌鸦一般黑

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
天下乌鸦一般黑 tiān xià wū yā yī bān hēi - all crows are black (idiom)
- evil people are bad all over the world

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
- - - 84,666 40,818

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
天 tiān- day
- sky
- heaven
下 xià- down
- downwards
- below
- lower
- later
- next (week etc)
- second (of two parts)
- to decline
- to go down
- to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc)
- measure word to show the frequency of an action
乌 wū- abbr. for country names that begin with 烏|乌[wu1]: Ukraine 烏克蘭|乌克兰[Wu1ke4lan2], Uzbekistan 烏茲別克斯坦|乌兹别克斯坦[Wu1zi1bie2ke4si1tan3] etc
- surname Wu
乌 wū- crow
- black
乌 wù- used in 烏拉|乌拉[wu4la5]
- used in 烏拉草|乌拉草[wu4la5cao3]
鸦 yā- crow
鸦 yā- variant of 鴉|鸦[ya1]
一 yī- one
- single
- a (article)
- as soon as
- entire; whole; all; throughout
- "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
- also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
般 bān- sort
- kind
- class
- way
- manner
般 bō- used in 般若[bo1re3]
般 pán- see 般樂|般乐[pan2 le4]
黑 hēi- abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]
黑 hēi- black
- dark
- sinister
- secret
- shady
- illegal
- to hide (sth) away
- to vilify
- (loanword) to hack (computing)

Other Words Containing 天下乌鸦一般黑

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo