啃
kěnkèn HSK7

gnaw

啃 kěn frequency
to gnaw verb
To gnaw, nibble, or bite off something hard bit by bit using the front teeth

你在啃指甲吗？

nǐ zài kěn zhǐ​jia ma?

Are you biting your nails?

这条狗整天一直在啃一块骨头。

zhè tiáo gǒu zhěng​tiān yī​zhí zài kěn yī​kuài gū​tou.

The dog has been gnawing away on the bone all day.

to kiss
(slang) To kiss; to smooch.
to study hard
(figurative) To pore over or delve into a difficult book or subject
啃 kèn
to eat
(colloquial) To eat, especially when eating heartily or consuming several items in one sitting.

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,345th most common 6.42 per million
Movie subtitles
2,905th most common 4.01 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.57 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
11.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5543

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