常
cháng HSK1

common

常 cháng
ordinary adverbadjective
(bound form) ordinary; common; normal; general
often adverb
often; frequently; usually; always

我跟我老婆常来这里。

wǒ gēn wǒ lǎo​po cháng lái zhè​lǐ.

My wife and I often come here.

家长常警告孩子别玩火。

jiā​zhǎng cháng jǐng​gào hái​zi bié wán huǒ.

Parents often warn their children not to play with fire.

constant adjectiveadverb
(bound form) constant; fixed; invariable; lasting
regular noun
(bound form) regular; periodic; scheduled
Chang
(surname) Chang
social order
(literary) social order; ethical principles; law and discipline
law
(literary) law; rule; regular pattern

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
187th most common 1097.2 per million
Movie subtitles
177th most common 990.2 per million appears in 96% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
60.8 per million appears in 23% of films
Written text
170.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5E38

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