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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 燕窝

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
燕窝 yàn wō - edible bird's nest

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
- - 41,700 29,227 15,938

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
yān- Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning
- north Hebei
- the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409-436)
- surname Yan
yàn- swallow (family Hirundinidae)
- old variant of 宴[yan4]
yàn- variant of 燕[yan4]
- nest
- pit or hollow on the human body
- lair
- den
- place
- to harbor or shelter
- to hold in check
- to bend
- classifier for litters and broods

Other Words Containing 燕窝

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
燕窝 - - 41,700 29,227 15,938