HSK 6 · Adjectives

罕见 hǎnjiàn “rare” in Chinese

Traditional 罕見

What 罕见 means

  1. rare
  2. seldom seen
  3. rarely seen

How to say 罕见

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale罕hǎn3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale见jiàn4th tone, falling

罕见 in a sentence

  1. 那可真罕见啊。

    Nà kě zhēn hǎnjiàn a.

    That’s really rare.

    Sentence #13943177 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 月食是一种罕见的现象。

    Yuèshí shì yì zhǒng hǎnjiàn de xiànxiàng.

    A lunar eclipse is a rare phenomenon.

    Sentence #729433 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 汤姆得了一种罕见的皮肤病。

    Tāngmǔ dé le yì zhǒng hǎnjiàn de pífūbìng.

    Tom has a rare skin disease.

    Sentence #13890577 from Tatoeba

How 罕见 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 罕 (hǎn) with each of its parts in a different colour
罕hǎnrare
  • ⺳net form of 网 · wǎng
  • 干dry · gān
The character 见 (jiàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
见jiànto see
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 儿legs · ér

Memory aidSimplified from 見: a big eye 目 on top of a person 儿: to see.

How to write 罕见

罕 7 strokes · 见 4 strokes

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罕见 (hǎnjiàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 罕见 (hǎnjiàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 罕见

Words with 见

看见kànjiàn · to see再见zàijiàn · goodbye听见tīngjiàn · to hear见jiàn · to see见面jiànmiàn · meet/see somebody见到jiàndào · to see不见bújiàn · to be missing遇见yùjiàn · to meet (by chance)常见chángjiàn · common意见yìjiàn · idea

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FAQs

罕见 (hǎnjiàn) means “rare” or “seldom seen”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it hǎnjiàn: hǎn with a 3rd tone, then jiàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 罕见 is written 罕見. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hanjian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 罕见 from the suggestions. Typing hanjian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
罕见 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.