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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
léi - to pound (with a mortar and pestle); to hit (a person); to beat (a drum); to bang on (a door)
- (dialect) to scold
lèi - (bound form) platform for a martial art contest
- Taiwan pr. [lei2]

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
- - 27,213 27,719 29,149

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

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
自吹自擂 - - 22,988 67,861 48,246
擂台 - - 24,350 24,521 35,466
- - 27,213 27,719 29,149
擂台赛 - - 42,397 28,474 62,768
打擂台 - - 58,442 87,874 71,292