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)
yuán - root
- source
- origin

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
- - 5,391 1,900 2,705

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Water

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
来源 6 4 3,511 1,255 3,568
资源 5 4 4,047 592 2,804
能源 5 7 4,953 1,983 8,577
- - 5,391 1,900 2,705
电源 6 4 5,588 6,481 7,577
源头 - 7 8,178 8,263 14,166
源自 - - 8,526 13,024 9,694
起源 6 8 9,953 13,954 17,490
来源于 - 8 11,188 - -
根源 6 8 11,297 8,703 9,578
水源 - 8 11,360 7,905 23,075
源于 - 8 11,535 7,910 7,459
源泉 6 8 13,422 13,542 13,601
发源地 - 9 19,857 23,880 24,245
渊源 - 9 20,891 16,142 28,789
光源 - - 20,899 18,934 22,364
热源 - - 21,224 37,829 63,001
源源不断 - 9 21,380 15,208 23,206
世外桃源 - - 23,083 31,547 22,542
货源 - - 23,687 13,053 20,519
财源 - - 24,336 13,052 6,118
自然资源 - - 29,694 - -
病源 - - 35,686 50,208 75,123
客源 - - 37,193 17,435 45,010
溯源 - - 37,551 54,121 56,670
泉源 - - 38,040 70,303 56,145
发源 - - 40,143 36,569 37,956
词源 - - 41,509 79,540 79,926
源代码 - - 41,901 - -
电源线 - - 42,249 - -
传染源 - - 43,044 - -
生源 - - 44,437 - -
桃源 - - 45,504 28,153 23,535
本源 - - 47,464 32,346 39,343
放射源 - - 48,468 49,391 -
左右逢源 - - 48,565 50,115 34,468
震源 - - 50,364 42,983 25,316
同源 - - 57,492 30,086 50,244
饮水思源 - - 60,965 69,193 58,140
兵源 - - 65,330 67,205 80,214
源程序 - - 66,592 90,635 117,764
门源 - - 81,859 92,614 47,886
河源 - - 85,560 29,336 20,298
桃花源 - - 92,892 32,568 26,797