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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
xiāo - to peel with a knife
- to pare
- to cut (a ball at tennis etc)
xuē - to pare
- to reduce
- to remove
- Taiwan pr. [xue4]

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
- 8 8,535 9,586 7,253

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
- 8 8,535 9,586 7,253
削减 - - 11,200 9,664 19,241
削弱 6 8 13,060 9,522 26,229
剥削 6 8 13,764 11,750 17,875
瘦削 - - 44,684 35,901 54,532
刀削面 - - 58,298 58,820 26,987
剥削者 - - 59,299 57,810 85,842
切削 - - 64,326 25,881 58,603
削价 - - 66,409 61,831 121,973
削球 - - 66,655 53,879 80,697
削发 - - 86,431 72,217 51,798