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)
chǎo - to sauté; to stir-fry
- to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp
- to hype up
- to sack; to fire (sb)

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 1,810 2,588 1,246

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Fire

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 1,810 2,588 1,246
炒鱿鱼 - - 8,558 54,423 33,808
炒作 - 6 21,931 5,102 5,804
炒面 - - 25,965 39,254 17,563
炒饭 - - 26,565 17,924 6,873
炒菜 - - 38,171 22,444 12,533
炒股 - 6 40,802 12,596 11,145
炒米 - - 53,209 65,247 32,576
炒冷饭 - - 58,677 82,460 43,702
爆炒 - - 61,004 36,827 21,811
炒锅 - - 79,509 34,689 15,487