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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
chòu - stench
- smelly
- to smell (bad)
- repulsive
- loathsome
- terrible
- bad
- severely
- ruthlessly
- dud (ammunition)
xiù - sense of smell
- smell bad

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 5 1,169 4,650 2,084

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Ideographic

Hint:

The smell 自 of a dirty dog 犬

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 5 1,169 4,650 2,084
臭味 - - 8,436 20,144 16,599
臭名昭著 - - 11,498 40,000 42,566
臭虫 - - 11,979 50,900 46,952
发臭 - - 12,649 48,571 39,371
臭气 - - 12,954 35,715 44,160
恶臭 - - 13,980 27,889 31,435
口臭 - - 16,152 33,505 16,329
乳臭未干 - - 18,658 86,053 75,312
除臭剂 - - 18,676 97,290 58,772
臭烘烘 - - 20,386 90,924 69,716
臭氧层 - - 22,937 42,631 61,923
汗臭 - - 27,268 - -
腐臭 - - 27,736 66,652 64,999
狐臭 - - 31,688 70,546 37,627
臭名远扬 - - 31,902 78,946 63,764
遗臭万年 - - 32,273 69,756 41,609
臭皮囊 - - 32,780 - 64,816
臭架子 - - 36,779 - 93,270
臭氧 - - 37,612 30,055 28,866
臭骂 - - 39,036 46,578 31,084
腥臭 - - 55,054 48,743 60,213
腋臭 - - 74,442 68,803 50,800
臭熏熏 - - 97,400 - -