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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
hěn - ruthless; fierce; ferocious
- determined; resolute
- to harden (one's heart)
- old variant of 很[hen3]

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 3,807 3,854 1,737

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

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Type:

Pictophonetic

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Semantic:

Hint:

Dog

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
- 6 3,807 3,854 1,737
狠狠 - - 4,111 6,056 4,692
凶狠 - 8 14,884 17,714 18,524
狠心 6 - 19,066 16,735 8,698
狠毒 - - 22,228 29,131 24,757
心狠手辣 - - 23,146 39,288 34,413
恶狠狠 - - 32,886 22,942 28,882
狠命 - - 37,565 60,049 46,729
下狠心 - - 90,827 - -