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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 定音

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
定音 dìng yīn - to call the tune
- to make the final decision

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
- - - 82,602 77,202

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
dìng- to fix; to set; to make definite
- to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc)
- to congeal; to coagulate
- (literary) definitely
yīn- sound
- noise
- note (of musical scale)
- tone
- news
- syllable
- reading (phonetic value of a character)

Other Words Containing 定音

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
一锤定音 - - 41,184 49,200 49,018
定音鼓 - - 60,974 - 109,290
一槌定音 - - 98,711 - -