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)
jiān - difficult
- hard
- hardship

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
- - 37,689 41,213 33,988

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Tough

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
艰难 6 5 2,157 4,418 4,380
艰苦 5 5 7,226 5,935 11,355
艰辛 - 8 10,205 9,558 7,583
艰巨 5 8 14,016 8,867 9,328
艰险 - 9 27,496 33,217 33,001
举步维艰 - - 37,162 31,777 36,785
- - 37,689 41,213 33,988
艰难险阻 - - 44,214 44,935 43,695
艰苦奋斗 - 9 46,723 10,605 35,581
步履维艰 - - 54,370 56,045 65,364