弱
ruò HSK4

weak

弱 ruò
weak adjective
physically weak, feeble, or lacking in power and strength

由于长期生病，他的身体变得非常弱。

yóu​yú cháng​qī shēng​bìng, tā de shēn​tǐ biàn de fēi​cháng ruò.

His body became very weak due to prolonged illness.

inferior adjective
not as good as others; inferior in quality or skill

他在象棋方面的水平比对手弱。

tā zài xiàng​qí fāng​miàn de shuǐ​píng bǐ duì​shǒu ruò.

His chess skills are weaker than his opponent's.

slightly less adjective
used after a decimal or fraction to indicate a value slightly less than the stated amount

这次的通过率是三分之二弱。

zhèi cì de tōng​guò​lǜ shì sān​fēn​zhī'èr ruò.

The passing rate this time is slightly less than two-thirds.

young adjective
young or of a tender age

他虽然正值弱龄，就已显示出非凡的才华。

tā suī​rán zhèng​zhí ruò líng, jiù yǐ xiǎn​shì chū fēi​fán de cái​huá.

Despite his young age, he has already shown extraordinary talent.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,038th most common 150.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,174th most common 74.7 per million appears in 33% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
15.2 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
67.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+5F31

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