困
kùn HSK3

to trap, surround

困 kùn frequency
distressed adjectivenoun
(bound form) To be in a state of hardship, poverty, or distress; impoverished or difficult.
to be stranded verb
To be trapped, surrounded, or stranded in a difficult situation; to be hard-pressed or hemmed in.

小偷被警察困在一所旧房子里。

xiǎo​tōu bèi jǐng​chá kùn zài yī suǒ jiù fáng​zi li.

The thief was trapped by the police in an old house.

你被困在这里。

nǐ bèi kùn zài zhè​lǐ.

You are trapped here.

Kun
(bound form) One of the sixty-four hexagrams in the 易经 yì​jīng.
困 睏 kùn
sleepy adjective
sleepy; tired; (of a person) to sleep

怎么这么困呢？

zěn​me zhè​me kùn ne?

Why am I so sleepy?

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Frequency
Character
Written text
868th most common 202.4 per million
Movie subtitles
933rd most common 118.2 per million appears in 48% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
44.9 per million appears in 16% of films
Written text
65.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Traditional
睏
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+56F0

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