叛
pàn HSK7

rebel

叛 pàn
betray verb
to turn against one's country, cause, or principles; to desert or defect

他在最困难的时候叛离了朋友，这让大家很生气。

tā zài zuì kùn​nan de shí​hou pàn​lí le péng​you, zhè ràng dà​jiā hěn shēng​qì.

He abandoned his friends during their hardest times, which made everyone very angry.

rebel verb
to rise up in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or authority

他在重赏的诱惑下叛向了敌方阵营。

tā zài zhòng​shǎng de yòu​huò xià pàn xiàng le dí​fāng zhèn​yíng.

Tempted by a large reward, he defected to the enemy camp.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,779th most common 48.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,256th most common 65.0 per million appears in 23% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.40 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
2.35 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+53DB

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