扭
niǔniū HSK6

turn

扭 niǔ frequency
to twist verbadjective
to turn; to twist; to wring or rotate something with the hands
to sprain verbparticle
to sprain; to wrench or injure a joint or muscle by turning it too forcefully
to sway verb
to sway one's body; to swing one's hips; to dance with a swaying motion
to turn around verb
to turn one's head or body; to swing around
to seize
to seize; to grapple with or grab someone; to twist or entwine
to go against
to act against someone's wishes; to be stubborn or non-compliant
crooked
crooked; gnarled; irregular in shape (as in 歪七扭八 wāi​qī​niǔ​bā)
扭 niū
[sound]
(bound form) used in the word 吱扭 zhī​niū to describe a creaking sound

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,805th most common 46.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,689th most common 32.4 per million appears in 16% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
16.2 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
16.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+626D

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