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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 赔了夫人又折兵
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 赔了夫人又折兵 | péi le fū rén yòu zhé bīng | - lit. having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom) - fig. to suffer a double loss after trying to trick the enemy |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | 75,603 | 58,077 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 赔 | péi | - to compensate for loss - to indemnify - to suffer a financial loss |
| 了 | le | - (completed action marker) - (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) - (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) |
| 了 | liǎo | - to finish - (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4bu5liao3] "cannot forget") - (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無|无[wu2] or 不[bu4]) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least - to understand clearly (variant of 瞭|了[liao3]) |
| 了 | liǎo | - (of eyes) bright - clear-sighted - to understand clearly |
| 了 | liào | - unofficial variant of 瞭[liao4] |
| 夫 | fū | - husband - man - manual worker - conscripted laborer (old) |
| 夫 | fú | - (classical) this, that - he, she, they - (exclamatory final particle) - (initial particle, introduces an opinion) |
| 人 | rén | - person; people - CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] |
| 又 | yòu | - (once) again - also - both... and... - and yet - (used for emphasis) anyway |
| 折 | shé | - to snap - to break (a stick, a bone etc) - (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business) |
| 折 | zhē | - to turn sth over - to turn upside down - to tip sth out (of a container) |
| 折 | zhé | - to break - to fracture - to snap - to suffer loss - to bend - to twist - to turn - to change direction - convinced - to convert into (currency) - discount - rebate - tenth (in price) - classifier for theatrical scenes - to fold - accounts book |
| 折 | zhé | - variant of 折[zhe2] - to fold |
| 兵 | bīng | - soldiers - a force - an army - weapons - arms - military - warlike - CL:個|个[ge4] |
Other Words Containing 赔了夫人又折兵
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| Word | HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
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