Welcome to ChineseFrequencyDictionary.com. Enter a Chinese character or compound Chinese word to lookup. If a valid dictionary entry is found, frequency information will be shown below:

Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
chǎo - to quarrel
- to make a noise
- noisy
- to disturb by making a noise

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 3 1,355 4,121 1,660

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Mouth

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 3 1,355 4,121 1,660
吵架 5 3 2,569 6,264 2,438
争吵 - 7 3,712 9,414 6,862
吵闹 - - 9,290 22,940 14,941
大吵大闹 - - 16,671 50,166 35,804
吵嚷 - - 25,347 75,743 78,976
吵嘴 - 9 29,849 60,899 42,984