Welcome to ChineseFrequencyDictionary.com. Enter a Chinese character or compound Chinese word to lookup. If a valid dictionary entry is found, frequency information will be shown below:

Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
- ruthless
- strong (e.g. of wine)
- (loanword) cool
- hip

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
- 6 733 3,490 1,499

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Wine

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
- 6 733 3,490 1,499
残酷 6 6 3,814 6,372 4,807
冷酷 6 7 6,081 17,568 13,556
酷刑 - - 14,661 29,984 24,152
严酷 - - 14,818 28,517 41,285
酷爱 - - 24,115 22,225 21,098
酷热 - - 29,418 34,492 57,810
残酷无情 - - 34,862 81,694 61,658
酷似 - 9 35,377 19,834 17,028
酷暑 - - 42,864 23,408 37,708