乘
chéngshèng HSK5

ride

乘 chéng frequency
variant 椉
to ride verb
To travel by a vehicle such as a car, boat, or airplane

有些地方只能乘船才能到达。

yǒu​xiē dì​fang zhǐ​néng chéng chuán cái​néng dào​dá.

Some areas can only be reached by boat.

to multiply nounverb
To perform the mathematical operation of multiplication.
to take advantage of
To avail oneself of an opportunity, circumstances, or someone's weakness.
Cheng
A Chinese surname.
Yāna
A Buddhist vehicle or sect that carries all living beings to enlightenment; often appearing in 大乘 dà​chéng or 小乘 xiǎo​chéng
to mount
(literary) to climb or ascend to a higher place
while
[prep.] taking advantage of a condition, time, or opportunity
乘 shèng
[classifier]
(archaic) A unit of measurement for a carriage drawn by four horses; often used to describe the military strength of a nation.
history books
A generic term for historical records or annals, originally referring to the history of the state of Jin.

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Classifier

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