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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
suǒ - to lock; to lock up
- a lock (CL:把[ba3])
suǒ - old variant of 鎖|锁[suo3]

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 5 1,072 4,141 3,370

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Metal

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
5 5 1,072 4,141 3,370
封锁 6 7 3,269 7,948 13,833
锁定 - 7 4,318 6,484 9,160
门锁 - - 6,275 23,274 21,606
锁门 - - 8,328 - -
连锁 6 8 9,774 5,306 9,336
连锁店 - 8 12,538 14,748 28,644
锁链 - - 14,434 39,305 38,176
锁骨 - - 14,821 19,752 14,565
枷锁 - - 15,391 26,071 17,621
连锁反应 - - 20,663 32,128 34,959
锁匠 - - 20,807 71,484 65,529
封锁线 - - 22,696 - -
拉锁 - 9 23,823 86,549 55,319
锁眼 - - 34,340 - -
挂锁 - - 37,144 96,265 77,092
锁孔 - - 43,227 62,850 65,543
弹簧锁 - - 45,791 - -
闭关锁国 - - 88,125 62,861 42,728
开锁 - - 89,873 - -