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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 著

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
着 zhāo - a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2])
- trick; tactic
- (dialect) okay; all right
- (dialect) to put in; to add
着 zháo - to touch
- to come in contact with
- to feel
- to be affected by
- to catch fire
- to burn
- (coll.) to fall asleep
- (after a verb) hitting the mark
- succeeding in
着 zhe - aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
着 zhuó - to wear (clothes)
- to contact
- to use
- to apply
著 zhù - to make known
- to show
- to prove
- to write
- book
- outstanding

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
- - 4,865 2,672 1,263

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

⿱ 艹 者

Radical:

艹

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

者

Semantic:

艹

Hint:

Plant

Other Words Containing 著

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
著名 4 4 1,578 1,439 3,133
著 - - 4,865 2,672 1,263
土著 - - 11,419 27,492 28,257
臭名昭著 - - 11,498 40,000 42,566
著作 6 4 12,426 5,491 16,826
显著 6 4 13,036 1,984 10,603
著称 - - 15,364 12,295 18,915
名著 - 9 19,120 16,630 16,938
土著人 - - 21,520 56,078 56,987
原著 - - 22,583 16,452 13,303
卓著 - - 28,290 33,405 57,723
巨著 - - 39,097 43,079 47,996
合著 - - 43,725 53,336 63,774
著书 - - 48,549 54,924 62,002
著作权 - - 50,707 14,962 42,387
专著 - 9 50,768 18,837 45,708
论著 - - 60,160 28,861 79,338
著述 - - 71,482 34,326 65,536
编著 - - 71,638 30,793 54,396