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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
cāng - (bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green
- (literary) cold

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
- - 57,153 12,540 22,728

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Water

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
沧桑 - 9 31,228 11,526 6,243
沧海桑田 - - 51,663 42,797 22,247
曾经沧海 - - 53,438 48,688 21,544
- - 57,153 12,540 22,728
沧桑感 - - 60,120 - -
饱经沧桑 6 - 84,847 75,452 58,443