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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
kān - to print
- to publish
- publication
- periodical
- to peel with a knife
- to carve
- to amend
kān - old variant of 刊[kan1]
- to peel with a knife
- to carve
- to amend

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
- - 18,661 5,573 8,401

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Knife

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
周刊 - - 8,374 7,604 11,376
刊登 6 8 9,608 5,856 16,613
期刊 - - 15,503 9,788 22,213
- - 18,661 5,573 8,401
刊物 6 9 22,825 11,033 26,113
报刊 - 6 22,974 7,273 17,559
书刊 - - 24,464 22,900 46,002
月刊 - - 28,242 27,982 28,947
季刊 - - 30,420 61,663 67,066
特刊 - - 30,444 30,329 31,941
校刊 - - 30,944 77,110 73,181
年刊 - - 36,155 94,624 64,096
停刊 - - 41,479 55,682 44,067
刊印 - - 48,465 77,083 -
增刊 - - 51,507 46,334 59,166
刊载 - - 53,077 21,529 44,265
创刊号 - - 57,884 55,534 49,788
创刊 - - 62,193 23,032 36,560
刊号 - - 72,617 66,416 65,197
刊发 - - 83,347 19,132 29,288
副刊 - - 84,427 36,051 53,463