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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
què - old variant of 卻|却[que4]
què - but
- yet
- however
- while
- to go back
- to decline
- to retreat
- nevertheless
- even though

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
4 4 275 125 161

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Seal

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
4 4 275 125 161
忘却 - - 10,173 15,013 7,967
冷却 6 - 10,198 9,748 11,334
退却 - 9 24,180 28,732 31,015
冷却剂 - - 35,079 - -
了却 - 9 37,521 22,892 12,653
冷却塔 - - 47,762 73,025 121,774
望而却步 - - 52,815 27,870 35,611
却步 - - 93,898 59,406 50,613
省却 - - 97,719 54,265 64,480