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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
bào - carpenter's plane
- to plane (woodwork)
- to shave off
- to peel (with a potato peeler etc)
páo - to dig
- to excavate
- (coll.) to exclude
- not to count
- to deduct
- to subtract
bào - variant of 刨[bao4]

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
- 9 18,253 17,322 15,777

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Knife

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
- 9 18,253 17,322 15,777
刨根问底 - - 24,126 69,438 50,747
刨冰 - - 31,626 70,444 45,768
刨子 - - 38,478 - 85,537
刨床 - - 94,986 - -