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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
cǎi - color
- complexion
- looks
- variant of 彩[cai3]
- variant of 採|采[cai3]
cài - used in 采邑[cai4yi4] and 采地[cai4di4]
cǎi - to pick
- to pluck
- to collect
- to select
- to choose
- to gather

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
- 7 6,201 3,558 5,443

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Ideographic

Hint:

A hand picking 爫 fruit from a tree 木

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
采取 5 3 2,636 766 5,798
采访 5 4 2,799 990 3,591
采用 - 3 5,966 540 3,093
- 7 6,201 3,558 5,443
采集 6 7 7,482 7,213 19,642
采纳 6 6 12,446 12,756 27,142
采购 6 5 12,460 2,846 6,352
风采 - 8 14,562 7,617 8,437
开采 6 8 14,743 7,398 27,524
无精打采 6 8 17,927 34,563 22,753
兴高采烈 6 9 20,312 22,126 23,178
采矿 - 9 21,483 14,730 43,416
神采奕奕 - - 21,558 39,573 31,377
采石场 - - 23,138 45,338 79,984
采样 - - 25,163 17,324 50,654
采摘 - - 26,850 16,444 14,919
没精打采 - - 29,014 74,952 63,414
采油 - - 35,841 37,132 75,898
采购员 - - 37,481 43,081 78,380
采光 - - 39,027 21,239 26,705
神采飞扬 - - 40,768 39,869 31,951
文采 - - 43,273 27,604 14,073
采煤 - - 50,078 23,448 78,575
神采 - - 51,034 31,540 24,526
采掘 - - 84,647 36,393 73,177
采伐 - - 85,912 28,107 105,258
采买 - - 85,948 72,657 64,956
采风 - - 90,809 29,412 31,911