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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
dǎng - to resist
- to obstruct
- to hinder
- to keep off
- to block (a blow)
- to get in the way of
- cover
- gear (e.g. in a car's transmission)
dàng - to arrange
- to put in order
dǎng - variant of 擋|挡[dang3]

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 5 2,579 3,846 4,663

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Ideographic

Hint:

A hand 扌 raised at the right time 当; 当 also provides the pronunciation

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 5 2,579 3,846 4,663
挡住 - - 4,635 10,596 10,757
阻挡 - 7 6,752 8,580 7,557
抵挡 - 8 10,767 11,339 9,658
挡路 - - 10,896 - -
挡箭牌 - - 20,475 42,856 33,170
势不可挡 - - 23,401 33,747 27,184
挡泥板 - - 24,849 - -
遮挡 6 - 27,293 19,019 16,804
空挡 - - 30,799 48,882 40,067
排挡 - - 36,455 50,601 32,108
换挡 - - 38,282 - -
风挡 - - 62,840 - -
挡驾 - - 65,836 83,114 83,791