宗
zōng HSK6

ancestor, sect

宗 zōng
sect noun
(bound form) a school of thought, faction, or religious sect; a division within a field of art or religion
master noun
a person who is looked up to as a master or model; a great master
[batch] measure word
(classifier) used for batches, items, amounts of money, or legal and medical cases

你曾是一宗司法案件的证人？

nǐ céng shì yī zōng sī​fǎ àn​jiàn de zhèng​rén?

Have you ever been a witness in a court case?

ancestors
(bound form) forefathers or ancestors
purpose
(bound form) principal aim; central theme or fundamental purpose
to follow
to take as one's model; to follow or venerate
zong
an administrative unit in Tibet similar to a county
Zong
a Chinese surname
clan
(bound form) relating to the same clan or family lineage; of the same surname
audience
(historical) a summer audience given by the emperor to feudal lords

Frequency
Character
Written text
727th most common 262.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,587th most common 37.4 per million appears in 16% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
12.5 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
35.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5B97

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