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人质
rén​zhì HSK7

hostage

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
人质 (人質) rén​zhì
hostage noun

劫匪扣押了数名人质。

jié​fěi kòu​yā le shù míng rén​zhì.

The robbers held several hostages.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
30.2 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
9.45 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)