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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 番薯

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
番薯 fān shǔ - (dialect) sweet potato
- yam

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
- - 63,303 21,117 9,904

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
pān- surname Pan
fān- (bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian
- classifier for processes or actions that take time and effort
- (classifier) a kind; a sort
- (classifier) (used after the verb 翻[fan1] to indicate how many times a quantity doubles, as in 翻一番[fan1 yi1 fan1] "to double")
shǔ- potato
- yam
shǔ- variant of 薯[shu3]

Other Words Containing 番薯

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
番薯 - - 63,303 21,117 9,904