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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
pēng - to boil; to brew (tea)
- to cook by briefly stir-frying and then mixing in sauce
- (old) to boil to death (judicial punishment in ancient times)

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
- - 37,230 24,781 16,994

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Fire

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
烹饪 6 - 6,900 14,099 11,945
烹调 - 9 16,897 20,512 19,234
- - 37,230 24,781 16,994
烹制 - - 37,724 33,674 27,120
烹饪法 - - 60,392 - 102,967