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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
chén - surname Chen
- Chen (c. 1045 - 479 BC), a Zhou dynasty state
- Chen (557-589), one of the Southern Dynasties 南朝[Nan2 Chao2]
chén - (bound form) to lay out; to exhibit; to display
- (bound form) to narrate; to state; to explain; to tell
- old; stale

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
- - 96,005 19,293 6,676

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Ideographic

Hint:

To place 阝 facing east 東

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