嫩
nèn HSK7

soft

嫩 nèn
tender adjective
young and tender; (of food) tender or lightly cooked

这牛肉炒得非常嫩。

zhè niú​ròu chǎo de fēi​cháng nèn.

This beef is stir-fried to be very tender.

light adjective
(of color) light or pale

嫩绿的柳条在春风中摆动。

nèn​lǜ de liǔ​tiáo zài chūn​fēng zhōng bǎi​dòng.

The tender green willow branches sway in the spring breeze.

inexperienced adjective
(of a person) inexperienced or unskilled

他毕竟还嫩，没处理过这种突发状况。

tā bì​jìng hái nèn, méi chǔ​lǐ guo zhè zhǒng tū​fā zhuàng​kuàng.

He is still green, after all, and hasn't handled this kind of emergency before.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,500th most common 19.2 per million
Movie subtitles
2,576th most common 7.45 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.08 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
18.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+5AE9

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