Welcome to ChineseFrequencyDictionary.com. Enter a Chinese character or compound Chinese word to lookup. If a valid dictionary entry is found, frequency information will be shown below:

Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
dōng - winter
dōng - surname Dong
dōng - (onom.) beating a drum
- rat-a-tat

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
3 - 8,578 1,965 791

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Ideographic

Hint:

A man walking 夂 on ice ⺀

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
冬天 - 2 4,454 2,131 650
3 - 8,578 1,965 791
冬季 - 4 10,177 3,363 1,707
冬眠 - - 15,932 18,649 8,258
寒冬 - - 23,220 13,484 5,845
冬青 - - 26,008 58,875 57,314
冬瓜 - - 27,818 15,433 6,703
过冬 - - 29,937 16,749 7,788
严冬 - - 34,350 33,433 24,039
忍冬 - - 42,215 70,207 64,013
隆冬 - - 46,769 27,875 13,730
冬衣 - - 48,676 44,922 24,271
冬至 - - 48,710 8,412 2,974
冬奥会 - - 49,397 14,915 65,722
丁冬 - - 53,866 88,624 83,848
冬宫 - - 59,285 92,936 80,929
冬菇 - - 60,165 43,314 18,547
波塞冬 - - 62,005 - -
天门冬 - - 62,652 74,742 74,866
冬笋 - - 70,944 52,088 31,591
冬荫功 - - 79,122 - -
冬不拉 - - 89,836 - 94,170
冬歇期 - - 91,033 - -
越冬 - - 94,659 21,387 37,090