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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 典

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
典 diǎn - canon
- law
- standard work of scholarship
- literary quotation or allusion
- ceremony
- to be in charge of
- to mortgage or pawn

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
- - 7,553 7,448 6,495

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

⿱ 曲 八

Radical:

八

Type:

Ideographic

Hint:

Two hands 八 holding a book 冊

Other Words Containing 典

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
经典 5 4 2,927 1,874 837
典型 6 4 3,861 2,647 4,740
典礼 6 5 4,391 6,528 7,964
瑞典 - - 7,185 6,265 10,611
典 - - 7,553 7,448 6,495
庆典 - 7 7,863 9,772 11,570
古典 5 6 8,641 6,844 7,176
字典 3 2 9,272 18,658 12,922
典范 - 8 13,910 11,741 12,683
法典 - - 15,321 25,637 60,497
典当 - - 16,002 17,623 26,370
雅典 - - 16,984 12,858 19,423
辞典 - 5 17,709 23,962 34,820
恩典 - - 19,119 45,038 24,489
雅典娜 - - 19,722 - -
宝典 - - 19,958 23,604 12,560
词典 4 2 20,876 16,474 22,026
盛典 - - 23,441 10,852 7,655
典雅 - - 25,262 12,107 10,717
典故 - - 25,672 26,702 22,660
瑞典语 - - 27,560 - -
非典 - - 34,398 7,311 26,684
引经据典 - 9 37,195 62,736 57,597
大典 - - 38,091 17,129 18,318
古典文学 - - 48,739 - -
典籍 - - 63,601 - -
瑞典人 - - 63,662 - -
词典学 - - 65,048 - -
用典 - - 73,660 - -