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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
méng - (bound form) to sprout; to bud
- (coll.) cute; adorable (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 萌え "moe", affection for an anime or manga character)
- (literary) common people (variant of 氓[meng2])

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
- - 19,985 1,629 374

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Plant

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
- - 19,985 1,629 374
萌芽 6 9 22,036 17,847 21,895
萌生 - - 40,738 22,207 24,179
萌发 - 9 45,734 21,314 29,125
萌动 - - 46,875 42,578 30,066
故态复萌 - - 48,544 100,620 -