善
shàn HSK3

good

善 shàn
to improve verb
(bound form) to improve; to perfect; to make better
to be good at verb
to be good at something; to be adept in a particular skill; often used as a bound form in 善于 shàn​yú or 擅长 shàn​cháng

我不太善言语。

wǒ bù tài shàn yán​yǔ.

I'm not so good with words.

good noun
good; virtuous; benevolent; of good character; the opposite of 恶 è

这是一个关于善与恶的故事。

zhè shì yī​ge guān​yú shàn yǔ è de gù​shi.

This is a story of good and evil.

kindness noun
(bound form) good deed; kindness; charitable work; specifically as in 行善 xíng​shàn
friendly adjective
(bound form) friendly; amicable; to be on good terms with someone
properly verbadverb
(bound form) properly; satisfactorily; well; used to indicate handling a matter with care or to its completion
prone to adjective
(bound form) apt to; prone to; used before a verb to show that something happens easily, as in being forgetful or emotional
familiar
(bound form) familiar; to look or feel known, as in 面善 miàn​shàn
[praise]
an exclamation used to express approval, praise, or agreement, meaning "good!" or "well done!"
Shan
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Antonym

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
749th most common 251.9 per million
Movie subtitles
979th most common 108.7 per million appears in 39% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
20.8 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
30.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+5584

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