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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 炸药

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
炸药 zhà yào - explosive (material)

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 4,396 10,926 19,529

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
zhá- to deep fry
- (coll.) to blanch (a vegetable)
- Taiwan pr. [zha4]
zhà- to burst; to explode
- to blow up; to bomb
- (coll.) to fly into a rage
- (coll.) to scamper off; to scatter
yào- leaf of the iris
- variant of 藥|药[yao4]
yào- medicine
- drug
- substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting)
- CL:種|种[zhong3],服[fu4],味[wei4]
- to poison

Other Words Containing 炸药

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
炸药 - 6 4,396 10,926 19,529
黄色炸药 - - 53,261 - -