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)
yán - surname Yan
yán - color
- face
- countenance
yán - Japanese variant of 顏|颜[yan2]

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
- - 10,331 4,561 2,125

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

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Type:

Pictophonetic

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Semantic:

Hint:

Head

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
颜色 2 2 1,603 2,160 1,253
- - 10,331 4,561 2,125
颜料 - - 10,507 23,536 18,945
颜面 - - 14,876 19,276 16,287
红颜 - - 21,877 15,991 7,736
容颜 - 9 24,379 15,026 7,243
五颜六色 - 4 33,059 24,912 18,086
汗颜 - - 35,366 26,315 14,859
喜笑颜开 - - 42,223 46,485 53,210
和颜悦色 - - 55,553 55,269 53,585
笑逐颜开 - - 56,992 51,643 49,620
养颜 - - 70,731 - -
素颜 - - 72,417 - -