剪
jiǎn HSK5

cut

剪 jiǎn
to cut verb
To cut, clip, or trim with scissors or similar tools; to edit audio or video

我说剪红色的线。

wǒ shuō jiǎn hóng​sè de xiàn.

I said cut the red wire.

scissors noun
(bound form) Scissors; shears; clippers; a tool with two blades used for cutting
to wipe out
(bound form) To exterminate, remove, or wipe out
Jian
A Chinese surname
to punch
To punch or clip a ticket (e.g., at a station or on a bus)

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,227th most common 27.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,485th most common 44.1 per million appears in 16% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
30.8 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
32.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+526A

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