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)
shǔ - potato
- yam
shǔ - variant of 薯[shu3]

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
- - 7,309 8,594 3,972

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Plant

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
薯条 - 6 5,044 - -
- - 7,309 8,594 3,972
马铃薯 - - 9,007 17,312 17,326
木薯 - - 24,898 52,558 48,979
甘薯 - - 36,116 44,974 45,327
红薯 - 9 39,608 13,280 6,001
番薯 - - 63,303 21,117 9,904