掂
diān

heft

掂 diān
weigh verb
to lift something with the hand in order to feel or test its weight

他手里掂着那块金子，觉得挺沉。

tā shǒu lǐ diān zhe nà kuài jīn​zi, jué​de tǐng chén.

He weighed the piece of gold in his hand and felt it was quite heavy.

estimate verb
to estimate or judge the weight or relative importance of something

你先在手里掂一下，看看这两个包裹哪个更沉。

nǐ xiān zài shǒu​lǐ diān yī​xià, kàn​kan zhèi liǎng gè bāo​guǒ nǎ​ge gèng chén.

First, weigh them in your hand to see which of these two packages is heavier.

Frequency
Character
Written text
4,020th most common 2.93 per million
Movie subtitles
3,394th most common 1.75 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.97 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
4.80 per million

Details
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+6382

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