使
shǐ HSK2

to use

使 shǐ
cause verb
to make, cause, or enable

这种药能使你的病好得快些。

zhè zhǒng yào néng shǐ nǐ de bìng hǎo de kuài xiē.

This medicine will help you recover faster.

use verb
to use or employ

你会使筷子吗？

nǐ huì shǐ kuài​zi ma?

Do you know how to use chopsticks?

envoy verb
an envoy or messenger

他曾奉使前往国外进行双边贸易谈判。

tā céng fèng shǐ qián​wǎng guó​wài jìn​xíng shuāng​biān mào​yì tán​pàn.

He was once sent abroad as an envoy for bilateral trade negotiations.

send verb
to send or instruct someone to do something

他使人去请医生来家里为母亲看病。

tā shǐ rén qù qǐng yī​shēng lái jiā lǐ wèi mǔ​qīn kàn​bìng.

He sent someone to fetch a doctor to treat his mother at home.

Frequency
Character
Written text
119th most common 1634.5 per million
Movie subtitles
413th most common 361.1 per million appears in 79% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
146.5 per million appears in 41% of films
Written text
617.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+4F7F

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