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:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
- how
- which
na - (emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")
- used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]
- Taiwan pr. [nuo2]
něi - which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)

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
1 1 162 935 377

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Mouth

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
1 1 162 935 377
哪儿 - 1 255 4,815 2,728
哪里 - 1 273 1,229 546
哪个 - - 974 2,397 1,049
哪怕 5 4 3,268 4,952 2,717
哪些 - 1 3,971 3,519 3,581
哪门子 - - 12,754 46,329 22,626