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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
gēn - heel
- to follow closely
- to go with
- (of a woman) to marry sb
- with
- compared with
- to
- towards
- and (joining two nouns)

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
3 1 70 202 120

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Foot

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
3 1 70 202 120
跟踪 6 7 1,271 5,054 10,049
跟着 - - 3,120 - -
高跟鞋 - 5 5,922 9,885 4,091
跟随 6 5 6,621 6,382 6,682
跟进 - - 7,898 12,302 15,430
跟班 - - 9,628 30,144 22,920
跟不上 - 8 12,348 13,134 10,692
跟前 6 5 13,883 13,152 16,842
紧跟 - - 14,621 11,277 16,344
鞋跟 - - 15,087 37,862 20,558
脚跟 - - 16,643 24,325 17,495
跟头 - - 20,478 30,171 20,426
后跟 - - 24,082 25,583 15,046
脚后跟 - - 24,746 38,235 28,092
翻跟头 - - 26,494 73,582 41,934
跟斗 - - 32,184 48,132 31,179
跟上 - 9 33,273 9,428 9,584
摔跟头 - - 34,975 82,610 47,999
栽跟头 - - 35,871 77,360 47,844
跟手 - - 46,177 - -
跟脚 - - 49,248 - 62,012