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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 苍蝇不叮无缝蛋
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 苍蝇不叮无缝蛋 | cāng ying bù dīng wú fèng dàn | - lit. flies do not attack an intact egg (idiom) - fig. no smoke without a fire |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | - | 57,782 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 苍 | cāng | - surname Cang |
| 苍 | cāng | - dark blue - deep green - ash-gray |
| 蝇 | yíng | - fly - musca - CL:隻|只[zhi1] |
| 不 | bù | - no; not so - (bound form) not; un- |
| 叮 | dīng | - to sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc) - to say repeatedly - to urge insistently - to ask repeatedly - to stick to a point - (onom.) tinkling or jingling sound |
| 无 | mó | - used in 南無|南无[na1mo2] |
| 无 | wú | - not to have - no - none - not - to lack - un- - -less |
| 缝 | féng | - to sew - to stitch |
| 缝 | fèng | - seam - crack - narrow slit - CL:道[dao4] |
| 蛋 | dàn | - variant of 蜑[Dan4] |
| 蛋 | dàn | - egg - CL:個|个[ge4],打[da2] - oval-shaped thing |
Other Words Containing 苍蝇不叮无缝蛋
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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