岩
yán HSK7

cliff

岩 yán
cliff noun
a steep or vertical rock face; a precipice

登山者费力地爬上了那道陡岩。

dēng​shān zhě fèi​lì de pá​shàng le nà dào dǒu yán.

The climber struggled to scale the steep rock face.

rock noun
solid mineral material or geological formation

海边的这些岩石在海水的冲刷下变得很光滑。

hǎi​biān de zhè​xiē yán​shí zài hǎi​shuǐ de chōng​shuā xià biàn de hěn guāng​huá.

These rocks by the seaside have become very smooth from being washed by the seawater.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,423rd most common 79.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,962nd most common 20.5 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.92 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
31.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5CA9

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