伶
líng

lonely

伶 líng
actor noun
an actor or performer, especially in traditional Chinese theater

他在剧团里是一名很有名气的伶人。

tā zài jù​tuán lǐ shì yī míng hěn yǒu​míng​qi de líng rén.

He was a well-known actor in the theater troupe.

bound form adjective
a meaningless bound form used in compound words

这个孩子失去了父母，变得孤苦伶仃。

zhè​ge hái​zi shī​qù le fù​mǔ, biàn de gū​kǔ líng dīng.

The child lost his parents and was left all alone and helpless.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,906th most common 11.1 per million
Movie subtitles
2,977th most common 3.61 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.15 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.59 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+4F36

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