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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
shū - (literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass
- (bound form) different
- (bound form) special; remarkable
- (literary) very; extremely

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
- - 27,285 15,438 15,240

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

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Semantic:

Hint:

Depraved

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
特殊 5 4 1,666 1,600 3,530
殊荣 - - 25,352 21,147 31,439
悬殊 - 9 25,627 15,663 29,690
殊死 - - 26,707 49,188 66,360
- - 27,285 15,438 15,240
殊途同归 - - 41,388 48,075 32,068
特殊教育 - - 44,651 38,378 68,998
殊不知 - - 51,789 19,429 13,445