勸
quàn HSK5

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劝 (勸) quàn
persuade verb
to advise, urge, or exhort someone to take a certain course of action

我劝他别抽烟了，但他不听。

wǒ quàn tā bié chōu​yān le, dàn tā bù tīng.

I advised him to stop smoking, but he wouldn't listen.

console verb
to soothe, comfort, or calm someone who is upset or angry

他失恋后很难过，朋友们都纷纷去劝他。

tā shī​liàn hòu hěn nán​guò, péng​yǒu​men dōu fēn​fēn qù quàn tā.

He was very upset after his breakup, and his friends all went to console him.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,562nd most common 65.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,027th most common 18.6 per million appears in 11% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
19.8 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
27.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Simplified
劝
Strokes
20
Unicode
U+52F8

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