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)
gāo - cake
gāo - variant of 糕[gao1]

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
- - 9,135 12,136 5,079

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Rice

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
糟糕 5 5 625 6,187 3,789
蛋糕 3 5 1,409 3,892 1,437
- - 9,135 12,136 5,079
糕点 - - 12,406 22,428 17,401
雪糕 - - 15,540 17,262 7,138
糕饼 - - 19,468 68,089 55,380
年糕 - - 28,307 19,781 8,359
冰糕 - - 52,405 82,471 51,313
炸糕 - - 54,729 90,732 44,869