次
cì HSK1

second, next

次 cì
time measure word
classifier for occurrences or enumerated events

我这是第一次来中国。

wǒ zhè shì dì​yī cì lái Zhōng​guó.

This is my first time in China.

inferior adjective
secondary in quality, rank, or importance; substandard; vice- or hypo-

这批货物的质量很次。

zhè pī huò​wù de zhì​liàng hěn cì.

The quality of this batch of goods is very poor.

sequence measure word
next in sequence; second in order

他们计划于次年回国探亲。

tā​men jì​huà yú cì nián huí​guó tàn​qīn.

They plan to return to their home country to visit relatives the following year.

Frequency
Character
Written text
183rd most common 1110.3 per million
Movie subtitles
146th most common 1240.5 per million appears in 99% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1307.8 per million appears in 98% of films
Written text
930.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+6B21

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