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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
yán - surname Yan (sometimes written 閆|闫[Yan2] in recent years)
yán - (literary) the gate of a lane

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
- - 80,696 22,220 33,307

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Gate

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
阎王 - 9 23,695 31,226 24,082
阎王爷 - - 65,568 76,100 50,810
阎王殿 - - 70,355 - -
- - 80,696 22,220 33,307
阎罗王 - - 88,431 84,190 58,664