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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
dòu - to tease (playfully); to entice
- (coll.) to joke
- (coll.) funny; amusing
- to stay; to sojourn
- brief pause at the end of a phrase (variant of 讀|读[dou4])

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 7 3,127 6,527 2,894

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

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Semantic:

Hint:

Walk

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 7 3,127 6,527 2,894
挑逗 - - 7,768 24,176 17,990
逗留 - - 9,923 19,094 21,229
逗乐 - - 16,237 35,970 23,791
逗号 - - 23,998 47,135 23,871
逗人 - - 27,762 51,318 30,840
逗笑 - - 31,810 45,937 27,769
逗趣 - - 38,380 52,770 27,914
挑逗性 - - 48,157 91,961 91,662
逗弄 - - 48,445 65,353 67,076
逗哏 - - 58,577 - 76,140
逗引 - - 69,629 99,710 78,129
逗闷子 - - 82,145 - 80,298