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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 凉拌

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
凉拌 liáng bàn - to dress cold food with sauce
- (slang) there's not much you can do about it (wordplay using 拌[ban4] instead of its homophone 辦|办[ban4])

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
- - 27,581 24,440 11,698

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
liáng- the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉[Nan2 Liang2] (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421)
liáng- cool
- cold
liàng- to let sth cool down
bàn- to mix
- to mix in
- to toss (a salad)

Other Words Containing 凉拌

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
凉拌 - - 27,581 24,440 11,698
凉拌面 - - 65,027 - -