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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
yuán - surname Yuan
- Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)
yuán - currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan)
- (bound form) first; original; primary
- (bound form) basic; fundamental
- (bound form) constituent; part
- (prefix) meta-
- (math.) argument; variable
- era (of a reign)
- (Tw) (geology) eon

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
2 1 1,434 55 90

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictographic

Hint:

A man 儿 with two lines emphasizing their head 二

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
美元 - 3 684 350 1,923
2 1 1,434 55 90
元首 6 7 5,135 11,816 18,428
元素 6 6 5,275 4,005 4,322
欧元 - - 7,708 2,634 4,244
元老 - 8 9,670 24,492 30,785
单元 5 3 9,916 5,980 13,772
日元 - - 11,422 8,898 21,828
公元前 - - 13,030 - -
韩元 - - 14,670 19,579 27,314
公元 5 4 16,180 8,559 15,140
元凶 - - 17,403 31,638 25,210
元帅 - - 17,414 14,337 21,662
元件 - - 18,431 16,213 43,024
元音 - - 21,775 44,697 58,180
微量元素 - - 21,793 15,369 14,239
元气 - - 24,137 15,380 12,025
新纪元 - - 24,820 32,790 35,881
多元化 6 - 25,856 6,180 17,221
神经元 - - 26,994 13,499 60,194
大元帅 - - 28,635 43,846 54,520
二元 - - 29,284 18,564 31,863
元旦 5 5 31,153 4,392 1,748
状元 - 9 35,653 11,410 16,098
银元 - - 36,539 33,797 57,933
化学元素 - - 37,357 - -
元勋 - - 38,974 76,473 75,368
纪元 - - 42,253 51,262 44,941
一元 - - 44,108 - -
多元 - 9 48,110 - -
稀有元素 - - 52,617 - 117,930
单元房 - - 56,777 - -
重元素 - - 57,746 - -
一元化 - - 59,834 45,014 97,932
元年 - - 62,592 17,399 28,841
元山 - - 75,670 93,812 87,414
元月 - - 81,108 14,658 18,655
三元 - - 91,883 - -
多元论 - - 96,352 - -