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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 凶

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
凶 xiōng - vicious
- fierce
- ominous
- inauspicious
- famine
- variant of 兇|凶[xiong1]
凶 xiōng - terrible
- fearful

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 2,986 5,748 4,583

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

⿶ 凵 乂

Radical:

凵

Type:

Ideographic

Hint:

A container 凵 of wickedness 乂

Other Words Containing 凶

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
凶手 6 6 770 9,325 10,121
凶器 - - 2,806 23,164 17,804
凶 - 6 2,986 5,748 4,583
凶杀 - - 5,251 34,414 40,289
凶杀案 - - 6,355 40,665 42,384
帮凶 - - 10,307 29,448 24,297
行凶 - - 11,066 22,108 32,370
凶残 - 8 11,652 13,770 5,976
凶猛 - 8 13,127 14,751 15,204
凶狠 - 8 14,884 17,714 18,524
凶恶 6 8 16,747 25,652 39,198
元凶 - - 17,403 31,638 25,210
凶悍 - - 22,683 28,333 27,632
凶暴 - - 25,547 69,548 76,694
穷凶极恶 - - 26,910 40,127 35,158
凶犯 - - 29,412 49,301 65,351
凶兆 - - 30,149 78,312 41,355
凶险 - - 30,306 25,597 34,538
凶神恶煞 - - 33,783 46,273 41,707
凶多吉少 - - 35,270 40,793 46,094
疑凶 - - 39,832 - -
逢凶化吉 - - 43,831 73,288 48,857
凶宅 - - 49,074 85,478 76,171
凶相毕露 - - 52,317 81,502 106,205
吉凶 - - 59,402 46,496 40,279
凶相 - - 61,472 74,532 56,887
凶信 - - 76,389 - -