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黑马
hēi​mǎ HSK7

dark horse

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
黑马 黑馬 hēi​mǎ
dark horse
(figurative) unexpected winner in a competition; a political candidate unexpectedly nominated
black horse
a horse with a black coat

Frequency
Movie subtitles
1.55 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
5.68 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 匹 pǐ

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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