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)
cáo - trough
- manger
- groove
- channel
- (Tw) (computing) hard drive

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
- 8 8,542 2,885 910

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Wood

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
- 8 8,542 2,885 910
水槽 - 8 10,416 35,571 28,225
跳槽 - 9 23,666 15,439 13,526
凹槽 - - 32,080 - -
沟槽 - - 46,294 60,106 105,895
食槽 - - 96,525 - -
槽牙 - - 97,237 - 67,802