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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 少林

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
少林 shào lín - the Shaolin monastery and martial arts school

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
- - 24,884 11,218 18,753

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
shǎo- few
- less
- to lack
- to be missing
- to stop (doing sth)
- seldom
shào- young
lín- surname Lin
- Japanese surname Hayashi
lín- (bound form) woods; forest
- (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people)
- (bound form) a collection (of similar things)

Other Words Containing 少林

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
少林 - - 24,884 11,218 18,753
少林寺 - 9 35,997 14,135 21,876