Welcome to ChineseFrequencyDictionary.com. Enter a Chinese character or compound Chinese word to lookup. If a valid dictionary entry is found, frequency information will be shown below:

Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
- grandpa
- old gentleman

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
- - 12,193 2,910 1,181

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

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Semantic:

Hint:

Father

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
爷爷 3 1 1,662 4,471 2,559
老天爷 - - 4,045 19,711 9,929
少爷 - - 9,376 10,222 7,708
大爷 - 4 10,643 7,218 3,000
老爷 - - 11,926 10,258 8,680
- - 12,193 2,910 1,181
老爷子 - - 16,255 13,035 13,269
老爷爷 - - 17,723 25,978 11,652
爷们 - - 17,936 14,191 5,289
老爷车 - - 22,062 40,123 32,940
姥爷 - 9 27,356 - -
姑爷 - - 42,106 46,769 31,249
老大爷 - - 48,031 27,593 18,307
财神爷 - - 49,999 41,198 20,038
老佛爷 - - 64,880 37,227 20,589
阎王爷 - - 65,568 76,100 50,810
佛爷 - - 73,258 53,636 36,085
倒爷 - - 83,917 79,691 79,123
王爷 - - 95,767 12,320 19,392