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Definition(s) for: 身在曹营心在汉

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
身在曹营心在汉 shēn zài cáo yíng xīn zài hàn - live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp (idiom)
- to be somewhere while longing to be somewhere else

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HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 96,211 65,939

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
shēn- body
- life
- oneself
- personally
- one's morality and conduct
- the main part of a structure or body
- pregnant
- classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset
- Kangxi radical 158
zài- to exist; to be alive
- (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
- (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
cáo- surname Cao
- Zhou Dynasty vassal state
cáo- class or grade
- generation
- plaintiff and defendant (old)
- government department (old)
yíng- camp
- barracks
- battalion
- to build
- to operate
- to manage
- to strive for
xīn- heart
- mind
- intention
- center
- core
- CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
zài- to exist; to be alive
- (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
- (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
hàn- Han ethnic group
- Chinese (language)
- the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
hàn- man

Other Words Containing 身在曹营心在汉

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo