常 (cháng)
Often; frequently
How 常 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- ⺌ — small
- Traditional
- 常
- Simplified
- 常 (unchanged)
Components
- ⺌ small
- 冖 cover
- 口 mouth
- 巾 turban/scarf
Common words using 常
- 正常 zhèngcháng
- regular; normal; ordinary
- 經常 jīngcháng
- frequently; constantly; regularly
- 非常 fēicháng
- unusual; extraordinary; extreme
- 家常 jiācháng
- the daily life of a family
- 尋常 xúncháng
- usual; common; ordinary
- 常客 chángkè
- frequent visitor; fig. sth that crops up frequently
- 常州 chángzhōu
- Changzhou prefecture level city in Jiangsu
- 常常 chángcháng
- frequently; usually; often
- 常見 chángjiàn
- commonly seen; common; to see sth frequently
- 常識 chángshí
- common sense; general knowledge; CL:門|门[men2]
- 平常 píngcháng
- ordinary; common; usually
- 往常 wǎngcháng
- habitually (in the past); as one used to do formerly; as it used to be
常 in a sentence
我常去那家咖啡店。
Wǒ cháng qù nà jiā kāfēidiàn.
“I often go to that coffee shop.”
How common is 常?
常 is the 187th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 54.4% of all running text.
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