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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
- quarter (hour)
- moment
- to carve
- to engrave
- to cut
- oppressive
- classifier for short time intervals

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
3 2 3,513 4,002 3,486

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
时刻 5 3 1,224 2,187 1,685
立刻 5 3 1,455 2,297 3,096
深刻 5 3 2,729 2,356 2,978
3 2 3,513 4,002 3,486
此刻 - 5 4,101 4,501 3,669
刻薄 - - 4,849 26,028 12,847
片刻 6 - 6,671 6,903 7,893
此时此刻 - - 6,884 13,842 6,997
苛刻 - 8 7,937 13,850 13,586
刻意 - 7 9,057 7,381 5,070
每时每刻 - - 9,971 - -
无时无刻 - - 10,719 24,387 13,908
即刻 - - 10,982 12,667 8,050
雕刻 6 8 13,313 12,376 11,208
时时刻刻 - - 14,301 21,509 12,382
刻苦 5 8 14,815 11,136 13,868
尖刻 - - 20,170 50,457 53,542
时刻表 - - 21,784 45,449 32,428
刻画 - - 26,822 18,156 20,521
刻骨铭心 - - 26,902 15,986 7,548
刻度 - - 28,816 26,930 29,640
雕刻家 - - 31,127 79,442 60,089
铭刻 - - 32,089 40,714 30,644
刻板 - - 32,158 28,845 18,454
蚀刻 - - 34,520 - -
刻不容缓 6 - 35,450 24,354 26,035
顷刻 - - 35,760 41,554 39,037
刻痕 - - 36,117 80,459 51,935
顷刻间 - - 41,685 33,280 45,429
刻度盘 - - 57,494 - -
敦刻尔克 - - 58,000 101,226 -
雕刻品 - - 62,059 - 109,223
镌刻 - - 79,672 35,749 33,057
刻毒 - - 82,585 - 111,617
铭心刻骨 - - 90,526 82,113 43,546
石刻 - - 94,408 26,213 40,982