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望塵莫及

wàng chén mò jí

C1–C2 Level 7

望塵莫及 (wàng chén mò jí) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. to see only the other rider's dust and have no hope of catching up (idiom)”. It sits at TOCFL Level 7 (CEFR C1–C2) on Taiwan's official TBCL vocabulary standard.

Definition

  1. lit. to see only the other rider's dust and have no hope of catching up (idiom)
  2. to be far inferior

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Vocabulary & levels: TBCL / NAER. Parts of speech: TOCFL 8000-word list (SC-TOP). Definitions: CC-CEDICT & CFDICT (CC BY-SA). Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License).