Welcome to ChineseFrequencyDictionary.com. Enter a Chinese character or compound Chinese word to lookup. If a valid dictionary entry is found, frequency information will be shown below:

Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
lāo - to fish up
- to dredge up

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
6 7 6,006 5,135 2,375

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

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Semantic:

Hint:

Hand

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
6 7 6,006 5,135 2,375
打捞 - 8 16,437 12,840 29,807
大海捞针 - - 17,487 58,802 46,223
捞钱 - - 30,188 - -
捕捞 - - 30,875 19,102 29,323
捞一把 - - 50,852 56,084 56,134
捞油水 - - 68,347 - 102,140
捞取 - - 80,534 45,698 57,442