层
céng HSK2

floor (of a building)

层 (層) céng
classifier measure word
classifier for layers, levels, or steps

这番话还有深一层的内容。

zhè fān huà hái yǒu shēn yī céng de nèi​róng.

There is a deeper meaning to these words.

floor measure word
floor or story of a building

他家住在二层。

tā jiā zhù zài èr céng.

His family lives on the second floor.

pile up noun
to pile on top of one another

远处群山层峦叠嶂，景色非常迷人。

yuǎn​chù qún​shān céng luán dié​zhàng, jǐng​sè fēi​cháng mí​rén.

The distant mountains rise range upon range, and the scenery is charming.

sheaf noun
(mathematics) a sheaf

层论是代数几何的重要基础。

céng lùn shì dài​shù jǐ​hé de zhòng​yào jī​chǔ.

Sheaf theory is an important foundation of algebraic geometry.

Frequency
Character
Written text
699th most common 277.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,120th most common 81.3 per million appears in 31% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
51.1 per million appears in 16% of films
Written text
155.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
層
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5C42

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