撑
chēng HSK6

prop up

撑 撐 chēng
to prop up or maintain verb
to support; to prop up; to brace; to maintain or keep something going despite difficulties

她撑到了村里。

tā chēng dào le cūn li.

She made it to the village.

你撑不了5分钟的。

nǐ chēng bù liǎo5 fēn​zhōng de.

You wouldn't last five minutes.

to open nounverb
to open or unfurl something that was folded, such as an umbrella
to pole verb
to push or move a boat using a pole; to pole a boat

你自己把船撑回来吧。

nǐ​zì​jǐ bǎ chuán chēng huí lai ba.

Row the boat back yourself.

to be stuffed
to fill to the bursting point; to feel uncomfortably full from eating too much
to look for trouble
(slang) to look for trouble; to ask for it

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,183rd most common 29.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,705th most common 31.5 per million appears in 16% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
27.5 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
28.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Traditional
撐
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+6491

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