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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 膳

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
膳 shàn - meals
膳 shàn - variant of 膳[shan4]

List Ranking for: 膳

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2025) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 20,898 22,989 18,834

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

⿰ ⺼ 善

Radical:

⺼

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

善

Semantic:

⺼

Hint:

Meat

Other Words Containing 膳

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 (2025) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
膳 - - 20,898 22,989 18,834
膳食 - 7 26,720 14,239 12,962
用膳 - - 40,130 57,137 46,676
药膳 - - 61,306 41,698 27,607