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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 盘旋

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
盘旋 pán xuán - to spiral
- to circle
- to go around
- to hover
- to orbit

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 - 11,623 16,707 20,334

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
pán- tray; plate; dish
- (finance) (bound form) market prices
- (computing) (bound form) disk
- to coil (a rope, pigtail etc)
- to check; to examine; to investigate
- to transfer; to sell (property)
- to shift; to move (sth big and heavy)
- classifier for things resembling a plate or dish
- classifier for coils
- classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)
xuán- to revolve
- a loop
- a circle
xuàn- to whirl
- immediately
- variant of 鏇|镟[xuan4]

Other Words Containing 盘旋

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
盘旋 6 - 11,623 16,707 20,334