尘
chén HSK7

dust

尘 (塵) chén
dust noun
fine, dry particles of matter or dirt

书架上落了一层薄薄的尘。

shū​jià shàng luò le yī céng báo​báo de chén.

A thin layer of dust has settled on the bookshelf.

world noun
the mortal or secular world; mundane life

他一生清高，不愿与这喧闹的尘同流合污。

tā yī​shēng qīng​gāo, bù yuàn yǔ zhè xuān​nào de chén tóng​liú​hé​wū.

He remained noble and aloof throughout his life, refusing to be corrupted by the clamor of the secular world.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,718th most common 52.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,957th most common 20.8 per million appears in 10% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.68 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
22.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
塵
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5C18

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