唵
ǎn

used in Buddhist texts to transliterate non-Chinese sounds

唵 ǎn
[interjection]
Used at the beginning of a sentence to express doubt, questioning, or to give a response; similar to "huh" or "yes".
to stuff in the mouth
To eat using one's hands; to stuff something, especially powdered or granular food, into the mouth.
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(bound form) Used in Buddhist transliterations and mantras; the first syllable of the six-syllable mantra 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 ǎn​má​ní​bā​mī​hōng
to hold in the mouth
To hold something in the mouth; to contain

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Frequency
Character
Movie subtitles
5,629th most common 0.020 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.208 per million

Details
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5535

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)