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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
cán - to destroy
- to spoil
- to ruin
- to injure
- cruel
- oppressive
- savage
- brutal
- incomplete
- disabled
- to remain
- to survive
- remnant
- surplus

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
- - - 31,185 11,244

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Death

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