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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 哪门子

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
哪门子 nǎ mén zi - (coll.) (emphasizing a rhetorical question) what
- what kind
- why on earth

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
- - 12,754 46,329 22,626

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
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)
门 mén- surname Men
门 mén- gate
- door
- CL:扇[shan4]
- gateway
- doorway
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- opening
- valve
- switch
- way to do something
- knack
- family
- house
- (religious) sect
- school (of thought)
- class
- category
- phylum or division (taxonomy)
- classifier for large guns
- classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology
- (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
子 zǐ- son
- child
- seed
- egg
- small thing
- 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat
- viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3deng3 jue2wei4]
- ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
- subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
子 zi- (noun suffix)

Other Words Containing 哪门子

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
哪门子 - - 12,754 46,329 22,626