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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 紧

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
紧 jǐn - tight
- strict
- close at hand
- near
- urgent
- tense
- hard up
- short of money
- to tighten

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 3 1,255 1,950 1,595

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

⿱⿰？ 又 糸

Radical:

糸

Type:

Pictophonetic

Semantic:

糸

Hint:

Silk

Other Words Containing 紧

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
紧张 4 3 663 1,486 1,992
紧 5 3 1,255 1,950 1,595
紧急 5 3 1,343 2,803 6,198
赶紧 5 3 1,914 2,076 816
抓紧 5 4 3,071 4,721 4,367
无关紧要 - 7 4,463 25,357 16,323
不要紧 5 4 4,987 15,224 10,063
紧紧 - 5 5,552 3,919 5,962
要紧 - 7 6,247 14,101 11,321
紧密 6 4 7,977 4,283 15,032
紧身 - - 8,567 19,054 11,245
紧迫 6 8 9,828 13,301 21,063
紧跟 - - 14,621 11,277 16,344
紧接着 - 8 15,216 9,151 18,209
紧凑 - 8 17,508 16,702 17,992
加紧 - 9 18,574 8,057 22,214
紧要关头 - - 18,587 36,796 47,200
收紧 - - 19,632 17,549 12,645
紧急状态 - - 22,138 - -
紧要 - - 22,301 20,165 9,939
紧握 - - 23,429 18,257 11,616
紧贴 - - 25,299 14,665 17,377
咬紧牙关 - - 25,356 42,918 41,286
紧逼 - - 25,824 - -
紧缩 - 9 30,816 12,168 17,101
紧缺 - 9 31,704 13,177 31,967
手头紧 - - 31,756 88,027 63,034
松紧带 - - 35,105 79,029 45,900
吃紧 - - 37,281 27,298 33,173
紧箍咒 - - 40,610 40,905 31,980
紧接 - - 47,750 30,005 49,512
紧邻 - - 57,039 22,510 30,844
手紧 - - 78,989 54,833 49,919
勒紧 - - 79,402 - -
严紧 - - 82,038 - -
紧锣密鼓 - - 82,859 19,463 38,788
紧巴巴 - - 85,538 80,159 74,466
紧绷绷 - - 91,309 - 76,371