奔
bēnbèn HSK6

run fast

奔 bēn frequency
run verb
to run quickly, rush, or hurry

运动员向终点飞奔而去。

yùn​dòng​yuán xiàng zhōng​diǎn fēi bēn ér qù.

The athlete dashed toward the finish line.

elope verb
to run away secretly with a lover, often to get married

他们决定私奔到远方。

tā​men jué​dìng sī bēn dào yuǎn​fāng.

They decided to elope to a distant place.

奔 bèn
head for verb
to go directly towards a destination or move in a specific direction

他出了校门就直奔书店去了。

tā chū le xiào​mén jiù zhí bèn shū​diàn qù le.

As soon as he left the school gate, he headed straight for the bookstore.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,285th most common 98.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,859th most common 25.0 per million appears in 14% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.13 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
36.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5954

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