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)
zāo - dregs
- draff
- pickled in wine
- rotten
- messy
- ruined

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
- 5 595 9,869 5,971

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Grain

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
- 5 595 9,869 5,971
糟糕 5 5 625 6,187 3,789
一团糟 - - 2,540 39,260 24,931
乱七八糟 - 7 4,928 12,904 6,010
糟蹋 6 - 11,656 21,013 11,531
乱糟糟 - - 12,816 37,562 23,435
乌七八糟 - - 33,822 91,651 65,077
糟粕 - - 35,593 42,184 37,013
糟踏 - - 49,033 78,153 87,119
糟心 - - 54,150 73,482 32,020
酒糟 - - 82,479 63,515 53,435
污七八糟 - - 98,873 - 105,856