巾
jīn HSK4

cloth

巾 jīn
headcovering noun
an ancient style of headcovering, particularly for women

古代妇女常用巾覆盖头部。

gǔ​dài fù​nǚ cháng​yòng jīn fù​gài tóu​bù.

Ancient women often used cloths to cover their heads.

radical 50 adjective
the 50th radical in the Kangxi dictionary

“常”和“幅”这两个字都属于巾部。

“ cháng” hé“ fú” zhè liǎng gè zì dōu shǔ​yú jīn bù.

The characters '常' and '幅' both belong to the 'cloth' radical.

towel noun
a towel or a general purpose piece of cloth

他脖子上系着一方洁白的丝巾。

tā bó​zi shàng jì zhe yī fāng jié​bái de sī jīn.

He has a pure white silk scarf tied around his neck.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,281st most common 25.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,726th most common 30.6 per million appears in 14% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.15 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
7.26 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+5DFE

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