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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
chuàn - to string together
- to skewer
- to connect wrongly
- to gang up
- to rove
- string
- bunch
- skewer
- classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of
- to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus)
- to move across

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
6 6 4,815 5,207 3,266

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

⿻⿱

Radical:

Type:

Ideographic

Hint:

Two objects 口 strung 丨 together

Other Words Containing

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
6 6 4,815 5,207 3,266
一连串 - 8 10,947 12,766 20,904
客串 - - 13,577 18,400 13,187
串通 - - 17,263 31,537 42,449
串门 - 9 24,835 29,651 19,240
串联 - - 36,147 23,112 27,649
羊肉串 - - 38,213 - -
反串 - - 38,501 42,727 26,911
串通一气 - - 48,768 81,279 108,761
串供 - - 57,954 80,910 -
字符串 - - 61,065 59,856 65,905