串
chuàn HSK6

string

串 chuàn
[string/bunch] measure word
classifier for things that are strung together, in a bunch, or in a row, such as a string of pearls or a bunch of grapes

就像你有一串钥匙，在好几个门上试开。

jiù xiàng nǐ yǒu yī chuàn yào​shi, zài hǎo​jǐ​gè mén shang shì kāi.

It's like having a bunch of keys, and trying them on several doors.

葡萄牙人还经常会从一串葡萄上摘下12颗，在钟声敲响12点时吃掉。

pú​tao​yá​rén hái jīng​cháng huì cóng yī chuàn pú​tao shang zhāi xià12 kē, zài zhōng​shēng qiāo xiǎng12 diǎn shí chī diào.

The Portuguese also frequently pick twelve grapes from a bunch and eat them as the clock strikes twelve.

string noun
a string or cluster of things; a skewer (of meat)

我们有五种烤肉串。

wǒ​men yǒu wǔ zhǒng kǎo​ròu chuàn.

We have five kinds of kebab.

可能性有一长串呢。

kě​néng​xìng yǒu yī cháng chuàn ne.

There's a long list of possibilities.

to roam nounverb
to move about; to go from place to place or wander from door to door
to string together
to string together or skewer; to connect disparate things into a whole
to conspire
to gang up; to conspire or collaborate for dishonest purposes
to perform
to play a part in a play or movie; to act as a guest performer
to cross-connect
to get things mixed up or wrongly connected, such as crossed phone lines or jumping lines while reading
to become tainted
to have different things mix together and change their original character, such as flavors or smells tainting one another
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,832nd most common 44.9 per million
Movie subtitles
2,159th most common 14.9 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.6 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
20.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+4E32

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