屑
xiè HSK7

bits

屑 xiè
fragments noun
small bits, crumbs, or filings of a material

锯木头的时候掉落了很多木屑。

jù mù​tou de shí​hou diào​luò le hěn​duō mù xiè.

A lot of sawdust fell off while sawing the wood.

condescend verb
to deign to do something or consider something worth doing (usually in the negative)

他不屑于为自己辩解。

tā bù xiè yú wèi zì​jǐ biàn​jiě.

He disdained to defend himself.

trivial adjective
trifling, insignificant, or of little importance

你不用为这些琐屑的小事担心。

nǐ bù yòng wèi zhè​xiē suǒ xiè de xiǎo shì dān​xīn.

You don't need to worry about these trivial matters.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,516th most common 18.9 per million
Movie subtitles
2,605th most common 7.07 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.11 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
7.25 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+5C51

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