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)
duǎn - short
- brief
- to lack
- weak point
- fault

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
3 2 1,253 715 430

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Dart

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
3 2 1,253 715 430
短暂 - 7 5,111 5,588 3,886
短裤 - 3 5,220 13,441 6,627
简短 - 7 7,984 12,511 9,213
长话短说 - - 8,272 80,367 60,961
短期 - 3 9,357 2,317 4,526
短片 - 6 11,051 - -
短路 - - 11,191 21,385 17,511
缩短 5 4 13,219 5,622 12,637
短缺 - 8 15,083 8,293 22,540
三长两短 - - 18,651 58,135 51,157
短语 - - 19,890 26,404 30,057
短命 - - 24,392 30,050 21,806
短篇小说 - - 25,255 37,256 37,922
短袖 - - 25,606 - -
短波 - - 26,055 54,107 71,081
目光短浅 - - 26,161 53,340 32,155
短袜 - - 27,384 70,112 31,651
短程 - - 27,977 37,884 48,591
短促 6 - 29,441 38,581 34,377
短跑 - - 30,263 34,137 33,250
短距离 - - 30,695 39,180 55,553
短文 - - 31,113 30,106 22,409
短剑 - - 32,035 - -
短处 - 3 32,043 33,013 19,735
长短 - 6 33,317 12,114 12,256
超短裙 - - 35,571 40,970 24,831
短讯 - - 35,658 26,889 37,389
短视 - - 35,663 35,898 28,091
护短 - - 36,466 53,732 45,859
短兵相接 - - 39,875 48,044 70,643
超短波 - - 40,669 70,690 86,053
短小精悍 - - 41,364 62,764 55,613
短浅 - - 42,987 73,250 48,420
寻短见 - - 43,415 74,271 62,400
取长补短 - - 49,178 29,692 33,977
短工 - - 49,313 76,688 67,416
短衣 - - 49,653 - -
扬长避短 - - 50,746 31,975 37,961
短粗 - - 54,321 94,266 67,457
短句 - - 61,532 66,647 46,533
长吁短叹 - - 62,750 73,243 75,847
说长道短 - - 68,329 - 77,430
短见 - - 80,996 - 86,487
揭短 - - 96,877 62,206 36,887