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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 顿挫

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
顿挫 dùn cuò - a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes
- a cadence
- punctuated by a transition
- with syncopated cadence (brush stroke in painting)

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
- - - 68,801 73,503

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
dùn- to stop
- to pause
- to arrange
- to lay out
- to kowtow
- to stamp (one's foot)
- at once
- classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
cuò- obstructed
- to fail
- to oppress
- to repress
- to lower the tone
- to bend back
- to dampen

Other Words Containing 顿挫

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
抑扬顿挫 - 9 56,838 55,935 49,092