检
jiǎn HSK2

inspect

检 (檢) jiǎn
inspect abbreviation
to check, examine, or inspect for quality, errors, or compliance

新买的汽车必须在下周去参加年检。

xīn mǎi de qì​chē bì​xū zài xià​zhōu qù cān​jiā nián​jiǎn.

The newly bought car must go for its annual inspection next week.

restrain verb
to exercise restraint or discipline over one's behavior

他在生活细节上很不检点。

tā zài shēng​huó xì​jié shàng hěn bù jiǎn​diǎn.

He is very careless about the details of his personal life.

Frequency
Character
Written text
731st most common 260.5 per million
Movie subtitles
657th most common 202.7 per million appears in 50% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
26.6 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
44.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
檢
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+68C0

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