常
chángCháng HSK1

common

常 cháng frequency
often adverb
frequently; always; often; repeatedly

他常去那家书店。

tā cháng qù nà jiā shū​diàn.

He often visits that bookstore.

common noun
common; ordinary; general; constant; normal

这只是生活中的常事。

zhè zhǐ shì shēng​huó zhōng de cháng shì.

This is just a common occurrence in life.

常 Cháng
Chang proper name
surname Chang

常先生是我们的新老师。

Cháng xiān​sheng shì wǒ​men de xīn lǎo​shī.

Mr. Chang is our new teacher.

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