啃
kěn HSK7

gnaw

啃 kěn
gnaw verb
to bite, nibble, or chew on something hard or tough continuously

狗在角落里开心地啃一根骨头。

gǒu zài jiǎo​luò lǐ kāi​xīn de kěn yī gēn gǔ​tou.

The dog is happily gnawing on a bone in the corner.

tackle verb
to diligently study a difficult book or work through a challenging task

他已经连续三个晚上在啃那本深奥的物理书了。

tā yǐ​jīng lián​xù sān gè wǎn​shang zài kěn nà běn shēn'ào de wù​lǐ shū le.

He has been poring over that profound physics book for three consecutive nights.

Cross-References

Has variant

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