捧
pěng HSK7

hold up in two hands

捧 pěng
handful measure word
classifier for what can be held in both hands

他送了我一捧鲜花。

tā sòng le wǒ yī pěng xiān​huā.

He gave me a handful of fresh flowers.

hold verb
to hold or offer with both hands

他两手捧着一个瓷碗。

tā liǎng shǒu pěng zhe yī gè cí wǎn.

He held a porcelain bowl in both hands.

praise verb
to sing the praises of, flatter, or boost someone's reputation

有些公司专门雇人来捧自家的产品。

yǒu xiē gōng​sī zhuān​mén gù rén lái pěng zì​jiā de chǎn​pǐn.

Some companies specifically hire people to hype up their own products.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,353rd most common 23.4 per million
Movie subtitles
2,721st most common 5.85 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.86 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
31.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+6367

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