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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
chà - Buddhist monastery, temple or shrine (abbr. for 剎多羅|刹多罗[cha4duo1luo2], Sanskrit "ksetra")
shā - to brake

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
- - 16,362 11,395 11,282

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
刹车 6 7 4,749 9,174 9,521
- - 16,362 11,395 11,282
一刹那 - 9 18,654 15,861 12,887
刹那 6 - 32,892 18,393 12,319
急刹车 - - 34,655 37,047 24,937
古刹 - - 58,284 46,239 40,812
刹住 - - 71,494 - -