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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 杠子

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
杠子 gàng zi - thick bar
- solid carrying pole

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
- - 36,477 65,679 57,274

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
gāng- flagpole
- footbridge
gàng- variant of 槓|杠[gang4]
gàng- coffin-bearing pole (old)
- thick pole; bar; rod
- thick line
- to mark with a thick line
- to sharpen (a knife, razor etc)
- to get into a dispute with
- standard; criterion
- hyphen; dash
- son
- child
- seed
- egg
- small thing
- 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat
- viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3deng3 jue2wei4]
- ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
- subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
zi- (noun suffix)

Other Words Containing 杠子

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
杠子 - - 36,477 65,679 57,274