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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
hāi - sound of sighing
- (interjection expressing surprise, sorrow, regret, disappointment etc) oh
- damn
- wow
- cough

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
- 5 6,904 7,862 4,254

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
- 5 6,904 7,862 4,254
咳嗽 4 8 7,744 6,303 3,644
止咳 - 9 23,095 18,403 8,589
百日咳 - - 36,191 65,335 63,158
干咳 - - 68,135 35,040 30,181