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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
jiū - after all
- to investigate
- to study carefully
- Taiwan pr. [jiu4]

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
- - 17,510 10,125 12,852

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Cave

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
研究 - 4 941 224 1,527
究竟 4 4 1,282 2,344 2,540
终究 6 7 7,734 7,557 4,060
研究生 4 4 9,714 4,337 7,687
追究 6 6 10,431 4,961 11,641
研究所 - 5 11,329 3,203 14,483
讲究 5 4 13,174 6,266 6,115
探究 - - 16,526 14,978 21,908
研究员 - - 17,394 7,391 22,187
- - 17,510 10,125 12,852
深究 - - 22,428 36,697 32,886
研究院 - - 24,878 8,174 20,327
研究者 - - 28,693 13,720 26,888
学究 - - 32,501 60,424 64,324
考究 - - 38,051 24,615 23,024
查究 - - 70,289 78,024 -