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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 火烧眉毛
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 火烧眉毛 | huǒ shāo méi mao | - lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation - extreme emergency |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | 85,465 | 53,544 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 火 | huǒ | - surname Huo |
| 火 | huǒ | - fire - urgent - ammunition - fiery or flaming - internal heat (Chinese medicine) - hot (popular) - classifier for military units (old) - Kangxi radical 86 |
| 烧 | shāo | - to burn - to cook - to stew - to bake - to roast - to heat - to boil (tea, water etc) - fever - to run a temperature - (coll.) to let things go to one's head |
| 眉 | méi | - eyebrow - upper margin |
| 毛 | máo | - surname Mao |
| 毛 | máo | - hair - feather - down - wool - mildew - mold - coarse or semifinished - young - raw - careless - unthinking - nervous - scared - (of currency) to devalue or depreciate - classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1]) |
Other Words Containing 火烧眉毛
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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