乘
chéngshèngChéng HSK5

ride

乘 chéng frequency
multiply verb
to perform mathematical multiplication

三乘五等于十五。

sān chéng wǔ děng​yú shí​wǔ.

Three times five equals fifteen.

ride verb
to ride a vehicle or mount an animal

我每天乘地铁去上班。

wǒ měi tiān chéng dì​tiě qù shàng​bān.

I take the subway to work every day.

exploit preposition
to make use of or take advantage of an opportunity or situation

乘他不注意，我偷偷溜了出去。

chéng tā bù zhù​yì, wǒ tōu​tōu liū le chū​qù.

While he wasn't looking, I slipped out.

sect noun
a Buddhist sect, creed, or vehicle

大乘和小乘是佛教的两大分支。

dà chéng hé Xiǎo​shèng shì Fó​jiào de liǎng dà fēn​zhī.

Mahayana and Hinayana are the two main branches of Buddhism.

乘 shèng
chariot verb
an archaic four-horse military chariot or a set of four things

千乘之国，摄乎大国之间。

qiān shèng zhī guó, shè hū dà guó zhī​jiān.

A state of a thousand chariots, hemmed in between big states.

history books verb
a generic term for historical records or history books

他在图书馆里仔细翻阅了那部珍贵的古乘。

tā zài tú​shū​guǎn lǐ zǐ​xì fān​yuè le nà bù zhēn​guì de gǔ shèng.

He carefully perused that precious ancient historical record in the library.

乘 Chéng
Cheng proper name
surname Cheng

乘先生是这位著名画家的后代。

Chéng xiān​sheng shì zhè wèi zhù​míng huà​jiā de hòu​dài.

Mr. Cheng is a descendant of this famous painter.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,231st most common 107.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,417th most common 49.3 per million appears in 19% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
25.9 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
37.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+4E58

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