減
jiǎn HSK4

decrease

减 減 jiǎn
to reduce verb
to lower or decrease; to cut down or diminish; to lighten

这周我减了2磅。

zhè zhōu wǒ jiǎn le2 bàng.

I lost two pounds this week.

to subtract verb
to perform subtraction; to take away a number or part from a total; minus

六减六等于零。

liù jiǎn liù děng​yú​líng.

6 minus 6 is 0.

to be inferior to
(literary) to be less than or not as good as; to be inferior to
Jian
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
857th most common 206.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,306th most common 58.7 per million appears in 26% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.1 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
51.7 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Simplified
减
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+6E1B

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