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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 尾巴

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
尾巴 wěi ba - tail
- colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5]

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 4 4,814 8,977 5,111

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
wěi- tail
- remainder
- remnant
- extremity
- sixth of the 28 constellations
- classifier for fish
- horse's tail
- pointed posterior section of a locust etc
- Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan)
- the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality
- surname Ba
- abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1le4si1tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1ji1si1tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1xi] (Brazil)
- to long for
- to wish
- to cling to
- to stick to
- sth that sticks
- close to
- next to
- spread open
- informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4]
- bar (unit of pressure)
- nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail

Other Words Containing 尾巴

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
尾巴 5 4 4,814 8,977 5,111
狐狸尾巴 - - 34,368 74,933 53,021
翘尾巴 - - 81,869 - 94,778