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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
zhèng - the name of a state in the Zhou dynasty in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng 新鄭|新郑[Xin1zheng4], a county-level city in Henan
- surname Zheng
- abbr. for Zhengzhou 鄭州|郑州[Zheng4zhou1], the capital of Henan
zhèng - used in 鄭重|郑重[zheng4zhong4]

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
- - 19,553 4,789 8,276

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Ideographic

Hint:

A city 阝 guarding a pass 关

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
郑重 6 8 12,360 11,459 12,561
- - 19,553 4,789 8,276
郑重其事 - - 51,494 47,693 48,720
郑州 - - 90,106 4,979 5,946