涮
shuàn HSK7

rinse

涮 shuàn
dip-boil verb
to cook by dipping finely sliced ingredients briefly in boiling water or soup, typically at the dining table

我们在火锅里涮了些羊肉。

wǒ​men zài huǒ​guō lǐ shuàn le xiē yáng​ròu.

We cooked some mutton in the hot pot.

rinse verb
to rinse or wash something by dipping it in or swirling it with water

把这几个杯子用清水涮一涮。

bǎ zhè jǐ gè bēi​zi yòng qīng​shuǐ shuàn yī shuàn.

Rinse these cups with clean water.

trick verb
to trick, fool, or play a joke on someone

他发现自己被人涮了，感到很生气。

tā fā​xiàn zì​jǐ bèi rén shuàn le, gǎn​dào hěn shēng​qì.

He was very angry when he realized he had been played.

Frequency
Character
Written text
4,527th most common 1.62 per million
Movie subtitles
3,440th most common 1.60 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.24 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.88 per million

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

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