圈
quānjuānjuàn HSK4

circle, loop

圈 quān frequency
circle noun
circle; ring; loop; something shaped like a ring

我们来围成一个圈。

wǒ​men lái wéi chéng yī​ge quān.

Let's make a circle.

circle [social] noun
a specific social or professional field; circle; group; sphere
[laps] measure word
classifier for loops, orbits, or laps of a race

他在最后一圈时超过了其他的赛跑选手。

tā zài zuì​hòu yī quān shí chāo guò le qí​tā de sài​pǎo xuǎn​shǒu.

He overtook the other runners on the last lap.

to encircle nounverb
to surround; to encircle; to mark with a circle; to draw a circle around
圈 juān
to shut in
to pen in livestock; to lock up; to confine; to imprison
圈 juàn
pen
livestock enclosure; pen; fold; sty
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Classifier

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,366th most common 88.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,113th most common 82.1 per million appears in 33% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
64.6 per million appears in 20% of films
Written text
77.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5708

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