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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 剪纸

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
剪纸 jiǎn zhǐ - papercutting (Chinese folk art)
- to make paper cutouts

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
- - 31,291 21,376 17,467

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
jiǎn- surname Jian
jiǎn- (bound form) scissors or similar tool
- to cut as with scissors
- (bound form) to wipe out; to exterminate
- to edit (video, audio etc)
zhǐ- variant of 紙|纸[zhi3]
zhǐ- paper (CL:張|张[zhang1],沓[da2])
- classifier for documents, letters etc

Other Words Containing 剪纸

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
剪纸 - - 31,291 21,376 17,467