淬
cuì

temper

淬 cuì
to temper
(bound form) to temper metal by heating it and then dipping it into water or oil to increase hardness
to submerge
to dip into water; to submerge or soak something in a liquid
to sharpen
(bound form) to sharpen or hone, such as a blade or one's own skills and character
to dye
(literary) to dye or stain by dipping into a liquid; to apply liquid to a surface, such as poisoning a blade
fire-extinguishing vessel
(archaic) a vessel used to hold water for extinguishing fires

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Frequency
Character
Written text
4,939th most common 0.997 per million
Movie subtitles
5,416th most common 0.020 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.12 per million

Details
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+6DEC

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