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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 哪

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
哪 nǎ - how
- which
哪 na - (emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")
哪 né - used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]
- Taiwan pr. [nuo2]
哪 něi - which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)

List Ranking for: 哪

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2025) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
1 1 162 935 377

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

⿰ 口 那

Radical:

口

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

那

Semantic:

口

Hint:

Mouth

Other Words Containing 哪

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 (2025) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
哪 1 1 162 935 377
哪儿 - 1 255 4,815 2,728
哪里 - 1 273 1,229 546
哪个 - 1 974 2,397 1,049
哪怕 5 5 3,268 4,952 2,717
哪些 - 1 3,971 3,519 3,581
哪门子 - - 12,754 46,329 22,626