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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 鲤鱼跳龙门
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 鲤鱼跳龙门 | lǐ yú tiào lóng mén | - to make a significant advance in one's career (idiom) - to get one's big break |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | 92,010 | 68,272 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 鲤 | lǐ | - carp |
| 鱼 | yú | - surname Yu |
| 鱼 | yú | - fish (CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]) - used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鮑魚|鲍鱼[bao4yu2], alligators and crocodiles 鱷魚|鳄鱼[e4yu2] and octopi 章魚|章鱼[zhang1yu2]) |
| 跳 | tiào | - to jump - to hop - to skip over - to bounce - to palpitate |
| 龙 | lóng | - surname Long |
| 龙 | lóng | - Chinese dragon; loong - (fig.) emperor - dragon - (bound form) dinosaur |
| 门 | mén | - surname Men |
| 门 | mén | - gate - door - CL:扇[shan4] - gateway - doorway - CL:個|个[ge4] - opening - valve - switch - way to do something - knack - family - house - (religious) sect - school (of thought) - class - category - phylum or division (taxonomy) - classifier for large guns - classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology - (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate) |
Other Words Containing 鲤鱼跳龙门
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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