役
yì HSK7

service

役 yì
battle noun
war, military campaign, or a specific battle

这一役打得非常艰难，双方都损失惨重。

zhè yī yì dǎ de fēi​cháng jiān​nán, shuāng​fāng dōu sǔn​shī cǎn​zhòng.

This battle was hard-fought, and both sides suffered heavy losses.

servant verb
to use as a servant, to enserf, or an archaic term for a servant

在古代社会，战俘往往被迫终身为役。

zài gǔ​dài shè​huì, zhàn​fú wǎng​wǎng bèi​pò zhōng​shēn wéi yì.

In ancient societies, prisoners of war were often forced into lifelong servitude.

service verb
forced labor, corvée, or obligatory military service

他在艰苦的边疆地区服役了整整三年。

tā zài jiān​kǔ de biān​jiāng dì​qū fú yì le zhěng​zhěng sān nián.

He served in the military in the harsh border regions for three whole years.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,245th most common 104.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,924th most common 21.8 per million appears in 10% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.44 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
7.74 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5F79

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