串
chuàn HSK6

string

串 chuàn
classifier measure word
measure word for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row

她戴着一串珍珠项链。

tā dài zhe yī chuàn zhēn​zhū xiàng​liàn.

She is wearing a string of pearls.

string together verb
to string together or skewer; a string, bunch, or skewer of objects

请把这些肉片串在签子上。

qǐng bǎ zhè​xiē ròu​piàn chuàn zài qiān​zi shàng.

Please thread these meat slices onto the skewers.

collude verb
to gang up or conspire; to connect lines wrongly or cross-connect

他们几个早就串好了，故意不跟我说实话。

tā​men jǐ gè zǎo jiù chuàn hǎo le, gù​yì bù gēn wǒ shuō shí​huà.

The few of them had conspired long ago and deliberately didn't tell me the truth.

rove verb
to move across, rove, or make a swift or abrupt linear movement

小猫在客厅里到处乱串。

xiǎo māo zài kè​tīng lǐ dào​chù luàn chuàn.

The kitten is scurrying all over the living room.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)