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)
- cancer
- carcinoma
- also pr. [yan2]

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
- 7 7,645 4,707 12,569

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Sickness

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
癌症 6 7 2,320 7,201 7,143
- 7 7,645 4,707 12,569
肺癌 - - 13,029 9,312 19,079
癌细胞 - - 14,835 14,882 25,513
乳腺癌 - - 15,272 11,310 15,827
抗癌 - - 24,389 15,687 12,449
致癌 - - 25,758 14,445 11,096
皮肤癌 - - 28,092 44,208 29,301
肝癌 - - 31,428 10,085 31,243
胃癌 - - 32,500 11,384 20,149
癌变 - - 40,097 27,141 37,441
致癌物 - - 43,628 28,849 16,371
血癌 - - 49,246 75,593 66,066