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)
bàng - stick
- club
- cudgel
- smart
- capable
- strong
- wonderful
- classifier for legs of a relay race

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 5 222 2,235 796

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Wood

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 5 222 2,235 796
棒球 - 7 2,176 17,036 14,879
棒棒糖 - - 9,928 22,896 9,097
棒子 - - 12,210 14,304 5,537
冰棒 - - 14,290 57,333 33,936
棍棒 6 - 25,751 31,814 31,514
大棒 - - 29,368 35,241 36,303
金箍棒 - - 36,944 - -
棒槌 - - 37,044 62,913 47,921
指挥棒 - - 39,337 42,732 67,088
铁棒 - - 39,612 48,589 48,313
棒冰 - - 40,923 - -
接力棒 - - 45,894 46,339 41,192
电棒 - - 46,140 93,724 57,701
撬棒 - - 78,140 - -
控制棒 - - 80,660 - -