僵
jiāng HSK7

stiff and motionless

僵 jiāng
stiff verb
physically rigid or numb, often due to cold or death

他在寒风中站了半天，手脚都冻僵了。

tā zài hán​fēng zhōng zhàn le bàn​tiān, shǒu​jiǎo dōu dòng​jiāng le.

He stood in the cold wind for so long that his hands and feet went numb.

deadlock verb
a state of impasse or a situation that has become strained

因为一点小误会，两人的关系闹僵了。

yīn​wèi yī​diǎn xiǎo wù​huì, liǎng rén de guān​xi nào​jiāng le.

The relationship between them soured over a small misunderstanding.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,333rd most common 24.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,953rd most common 21.1 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.05 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
4.25 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+50F5

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