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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
yāo - surname Yao
yāo - youngest
- most junior
- tiny
- one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military)
- one or ace on dice or dominoes
- variant of 吆[yao1], to shout
- exclamatory final particle
ma - interrogative final particle
me - suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么[shen2 me5], what?, indefinite 這麼|这么[zhe4 me5] thus, etc
me - variant of 麼|么[me5]

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
- - 113 418 108

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

丿

Radical:

丿

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
什么 1 1 17 94 61
怎么 1 1 55 203 100
为什么 3 2 86 515 252
这么 - 2 90 243 111
那么 - 2 106 223 125
- - 113 418 108
怎么样 1 2 197 2,537 1,622
没什么 - 1 371 2,948 1,721
怎么办 - 2 487 2,359 1,034
干什么 - 1 892 4,536 3,182
什么样 - 2 1,015 2,879 2,345
多么 3 2 1,019 2,862 1,304
要么 - 6 1,121 3,787 1,825
什么的 - - 2,828 3,594 1,295
怎么着 - - 4,674 21,402 11,685
不怎么 - 6 7,764 9,621 5,110
这么着 - - 17,410 51,769 33,155
这么样 - - 22,245 46,997 36,515
那么着 - - 30,549 - 96,828
怎么得了 - - 69,457 68,589 39,209