贤
xiánxiàn HSK7

virtuous

贤 賢 xián
virtuous
(bound form) virtuous and able; showing good character and talent
worthy person
a person of great virtue and ability; a talented and moral individual
[honorific]
an honorific used for someone of the same or a younger generation, such as a younger brother or a son-in-law
surname
a Chinese surname
to esteem
(literary) to respect or value virtue and talent
to surpass
(literary) to be superior to or better than, especially in virtue
贤 賢 xiàn
(bound form) large hole
(literary) a large hole, specifically the large opening in the hub of a wheel

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,943rd most common 39.9 per million
Movie subtitles
2,271st most common 12.7 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.69 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
15.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
賢
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+8D24

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)