甸
diàndiāntián HSK7

suburbs of capital

甸 diàn
suburbs
(bound form) outlying areas beyond the city walls; suburbs; outskirts; countryside
pasture
(bound form) a pasture or grassy field; often used in place names such as 桦甸 huà​diàn or 施甸 shī​diàn
imperial domain
(literary) the royal domain or fields surrounding the ancient capital; the administrative area under direct control of the emperor
to govern
(archaic) to manage; to govern; to bring under cultivation
Dian
(surname) a Chinese surname
mourning attire
(archaic) one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic China
field official
(archaic) an official in charge of the royal fields or imperial fields
甸 diān
[phonetic component]
(bound form) variant pronunciation used in the word 沉甸甸 chén​diàn​diàn, meaning heavy
甸 tián
to hunt
(archaic) to go hunting

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,588th most common 16.9 per million
Movie subtitles
2,956th most common 3.67 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.330 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
2.46 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+7538

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