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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 使役

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
使役 shǐ yì - to use (an animal or servant)
- working (animal)
- (beast) of burden
- causative form of verbs (esp. in grammar of Japanese, Korean etc)

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
- - - 85,996 97,538

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
使 shǐ- to make
- to cause
- to enable
- to use
- to employ
- to send
- to instruct sb to do sth
- envoy
- messenger
役 yì- forced labor
- corvée
- obligatory task
- military service
- to use as servant
- to enserf
- servant (old)
- war
- campaign
- battle

Other Words Containing 使役

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