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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
shì - decoration
- ornament
- to decorate
- to adorn
- to hide
- to conceal (a fault)
- excuse (to hide a fault)
- to play a role (in opera)
- to impersonate

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
- - 10,082 6,604 5,788

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

⿱?

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Cloth

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
装饰 5 5 4,031 3,587 3,286
掩饰 6 7 4,633 7,883 5,492
首饰 - 7 8,336 10,461 10,088
服饰 - 7 9,111 6,471 5,285
- - 10,082 6,604 5,788
饰演 - - 11,182 9,404 10,223
装饰品 - - 12,195 22,998 15,861
修饰 - - 14,312 12,298 9,105
饰品 - - 16,609 9,448 6,448
头饰 - - 18,008 33,726 20,711
配饰 - - 18,785 19,350 11,824
饰物 - - 19,853 26,023 22,756
粉饰 - - 24,669 34,816 22,895
花饰 - - 36,519 78,778 67,561
衣饰 - - 38,808 54,738 -
佩饰 - - 45,221 - -
润饰 - - 57,314 - 68,216
雕饰 - - 60,999 57,578 47,462
饰词 - - 66,610 - 90,405
纹饰 - - 83,899 40,715 44,550