熊
xióngXióng HSK5

a bear

熊 xióng frequency
bear noun
a large heavy mammal of the family Ursidae

他在森林里看见了一只黑熊。

tā zài sēn​lín lǐ kàn​jiàn le yī zhī hēi​xióng.

He saw a black bear in the forest.

scold verb
to rebuke or reprimand someone (colloquial)

他做错了事，被老师熊了一顿。

tā zuò​cuò le shì, bèi lǎo​shī xióng le yī dùn.

He did something wrong and was scolded by the teacher.

weak adjective
incapable, cowardly, or incompetent (colloquial)

别看他长得壮，其实胆子特别熊。

bié kàn tā zhǎng de zhuàng, qí​shí dǎn​zi tè​bié xióng.

Despite his strong build, he is actually quite a coward.

熊 Xióng
Xiong proper name
surname Xiong

熊先生是我的老师。

Xióng xiān​sheng shì wǒ de lǎo​shī.

Mr. Xiong is my teacher.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,741st most common 50.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,419th most common 49.2 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
43.8 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
31.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+718A

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