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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 后魏

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
后魏 hòu wèi - Wei of the Northern Dynasties 386-534

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
- - - 84,615 58,958

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
hòu- surname Hou
hòu- empress
- queen
- (archaic) monarch
- ruler
hòu- back
- behind
- rear
- afterwards
- after
- later
- post-
wèi- surname Wei
- name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States
- Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1], one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty
- the Wei dynasty 221-265
- Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history
wèi- tower over a palace gateway (old)

Other Words Containing 后魏

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