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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 焚书坑儒
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 焚书坑儒 | fén shū kēng rú | - to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | 77,759 | 45,616 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 焚 | fén | - to burn |
| 书 | shū | - abbr. for 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1] |
| 书 | shū | - book - letter - document - CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4] - to write |
| 坑 | kēng | - pit; depression; hollow - tunnel; hole in the ground - (archaic) to bury alive - to hoodwink; to cheat (sb) |
| 坑 | kēng | - variant of 坑[keng1] |
| 儒 | rú | - scholar - Confucian |
Other Words Containing 焚书坑儒
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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