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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 潮

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
潮 cháo - tide
- damp; moist; humid
- fashionable; trendy
- (coll.) inferior; substandard

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
- 4 8,398 2,292 950

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

⿰ 氵 朝

Radical:

氵

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

朝

Semantic:

氵

Hint:

Water

Other Words Containing 潮

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
高潮 6 4 4,517 4,783 6,567
潮 - 4 8,398 2,292 950
潮流 6 4 8,649 4,361 2,472
潮湿 6 4 10,277 13,304 11,541
浪潮 - - 12,239 9,197 18,497
新潮 - 8 14,163 21,295 17,803
低潮 - - 15,407 26,362 18,331
热潮 - 8 17,269 8,216 18,836
潮汐 - - 17,365 40,614 35,331
涨潮 - - 19,071 40,260 31,094
潮水 - - 19,569 19,438 20,103
性高潮 - - 21,186 35,896 43,292
风潮 - - 22,156 16,069 17,126
心血来潮 - - 24,081 29,701 15,183
心潮澎湃 - - 29,727 45,108 31,017
狂潮 - - 30,946 27,036 27,887
大潮 - - 31,808 16,587 27,018
高潮迭起 - - 35,034 37,128 24,513
退潮 - - 37,528 39,634 38,234
思潮 - - 40,947 14,876 34,512
红潮 - - 41,178 74,437 77,820
落潮 - - 42,840 82,944 81,337
受潮 - - 43,308 42,957 31,358
暗潮 - - 48,560 - -
海潮 - - 55,596 39,579 41,511
潮气 - - 60,803 67,701 55,562
回潮 - - 61,286 43,500 45,889
赤潮 - - 88,556 44,221 -