冰山
bīng​shān HSK7

iceberg

冰山 bīng​shān
iceberg noun
a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier or ice sheet and carried out to sea

泰坦尼克号因为撞上冰山而沉没了。

Tài​tǎn​ní​kè Hào yīn​wèi zhuàng​shàng bīng​shān ér chén​mò le.

The Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg.

unreliable backer noun
a powerful person or entity that provides support which is likely to collapse or prove temporary

他投靠的那个人只不过是一座冰山，迟早会倒台的。

tā tóu​kào de nà gè rén zhǐ​bu​guò shì yī zuò bīng​shān, chí​zǎo huì dǎo​tái de.

The person he relies on is just a temporary power who will eventually fall.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
3.16 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.43 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

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Classifier

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)