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)
chóu - to worry about

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
- 5 6,255 5,349 2,750

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Heart

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
- 5 6,255 5,349 2,750
忧愁 - 8 16,517 18,574 8,714
发愁 5 8 17,531 15,806 13,250
愁眉不展 - - 31,494 53,492 46,542
犯愁 - 9 41,751 35,989 32,535
乡愁 - - 44,346 41,123 26,088
哀愁 - - 45,805 37,322 18,423
愁苦 - - 58,600 49,823 37,912
愁肠百结 - - 60,056 - 77,207
愁绪 - - 60,501 55,203 28,955
悲愁 - - 70,320 - -
愁闷 - - 70,532 92,849 58,291