卫
wèi HSK3

guard

卫 衛 wèi
to guard nounverb
to guard; to protect; to defend
guard noun
a person who protects, guards, or defends; a sentry
[hygiene/toilet] noun
(bound form) abbreviation for 卫生 wèi​shēng or 卫生间 wèi​shēng​jiān
Wei
a vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty located in present-day Henan and Hebei provinces
garrison
(bound form) a military station or garrison during the Ming Dynasty, now often used in place names
donkey
(literary) an alias or nickname for a donkey
surname
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
669th most common 301.8 per million
Movie subtitles
802nd most common 156.4 per million appears in 40% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
10.1 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
37.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Traditional
衛
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+536B

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