兩
liǎngliàng HSK1

two

两 兩 liǎng frequency
two numeral
two; used before most measure words, with the number ten, or with large units like thousand or ten thousand; also used for things that come in pairs

你们两位见过面了吧？

nǐ​men liǎng wèi jiàn guo miàn le ba?

You two have met, haven't you?

a few numeral
a few; some; a couple of; an indefinite small number

我会等一两天。

wǒ huì děng yī liǎng tiān.

I'll wait a day or two.

他告诉了我一两件事。

tā gào​sù le wǒ yī liǎng jiàn shì.

He told me a thing or two.

both numeral
both; both sides; either side

两本书都是用第一人称写的。

liǎng běn shū dōu shì yòng dì​yī​rén​chēng xiě de.

Both books are written in the first person.

liang
unit of weight equal to 50 grams in the modern market system, or 1/16 of a 斤 jīn (catty) in the traditional system
surname
a Chinese surname
两 兩 liàng
[vehicle]
(archaic) measure word for vehicles

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Frequency
Character
Written text
133rd most common 1522.4 per million
Movie subtitles
206th most common 853.4 per million appears in 96% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1090.4 per million appears in 95% of films
Written text
1739.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Simplified
两
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5169

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