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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 跟屁虫

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
跟屁虫 gēn pì chóng - lit. bum beetle
- sb who tags along
- shadow
- sycophant

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
- - - 68,134 37,658

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
gēn- heel
- to follow closely
- to go with
- (of a woman) to marry sb
- with
- compared with
- to
- towards
- and (joining two nouns)
- fart
- flatulence
- nonsense
- (usu. in the negative) what
- (not) a damn thing
chóng- variant of 蟲|虫[chong2]
chóng- lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures
- CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1]
- (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic

Other Words Containing 跟屁虫

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