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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 震级

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
震级 zhèn jí - degree of earthquake (on magnitude scale)

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
- - 46,563 45,367 50,721

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
震 zhèn- to shake
- to vibrate
- to jolt
- to quake
- excited
- shocked
- one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder
- ☳
级 jí- level
- grade
- rank
- step (of stairs)
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- classifier: step, level

Other Words Containing 震级

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
震级 - - 46,563 45,367 50,721