Welcome to ChineseFrequencyDictionary.com. Enter a Chinese character or compound Chinese word to lookup. If a valid dictionary entry is found, frequency information will be shown below:

Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 古音

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
古音 gǔ yīn - ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character
- classical speech sounds

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
- - - 66,703 76,442

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
古 gǔ- surname Gu
古 gǔ- ancient
- old
- paleo-
音 yīn- sound
- noise
- note (of musical scale)
- tone
- news
- syllable
- reading (phonetic value of a character)

Other Words Containing 古音

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