判
pàn HSK3

judge

判 pàn
sentence noun
to pass a legal sentence or verdict in a court of law

由于证据确凿，法官当场判了他十年。

yóu​yú zhèng​jù què​záo, fǎ​guān dāng​chǎng pàn le tā shí nián.

As the evidence was conclusive, the judge sentenced him to ten years on the spot.

differentiate verb
to distinguish or tell apart (often used as a bound form)

将这两个方案对比一下，优劣立判。

jiāng zhè liǎng gè fāng'àn duì​bǐ yī​xià, yōu​liè lì pàn.

Compare these two plans, and their merits and demerits will be immediately apparent.

distinct idiom
clearly different or obvious

这两件事的性质判然不同。

zhè liǎng jiàn shì de xìng​zhì pàn rán bù​tóng.

These two things are of a distinctly different nature.

judge verb
to judge, decide, or grade an assignment or exam

老师正在办公室里忙着判考卷。

lǎo​shī zhèng​zài bàn​gōng​shì lǐ máng zhe pàn kǎo​juàn.

The teacher is busy grading exam papers in the office.

Frequency
Character
Written text
719th most common 269.0 per million
Movie subtitles
895th most common 127.2 per million appears in 38% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
30.8 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
24.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5224

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