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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
pāo - puffed; swollen; spongy
- small lake (esp. in place names)
- classifier for urine or feces
pào - bubble; foam
- blister
- to soak; to steep; to infuse
- to dawdle; to loiter
- to pick up (a girl)
- to get off with (a sexual partner)
- classifier for occurrences of an action
- classifier for number of infusions

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
- 6 2,230 2,286 874

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
- 6 2,230 2,286 874
泡泡 - - 6,948 - -
泡菜 - - 8,104 17,097 7,757
灯泡 - 7 8,668 14,826 8,820
泡沫 6 8 8,699 5,525 5,933
泡汤 - - 10,941 24,550 12,362
气泡 - 8 12,186 22,251 19,879
泡泡糖 - - 12,583 54,608 25,631
电灯泡 - - 14,757 45,092 22,548
水泡 - - 19,017 15,447 7,641
浸泡 6 9 19,856 9,809 6,290
泡影 - - 22,341 40,872 35,956
泡沫塑料 - - 24,935 55,140 60,479
泡茶 - - 27,331 25,611 11,871
起泡 - - 28,263 32,586 16,072
肥皂泡 - - 35,986 60,392 47,915
泡泡纱 - - 42,344 - -
卵泡 - - 44,180 31,191 53,294
肺泡 - - 48,086 25,061 43,170
泡饭 - - 61,316 45,275 19,778
液泡 - - 68,740 100,910 100,757