研
yán HSK4

grind

研 yán
research noun
to study, investigate, or examine in detail

我们需要仔细研读文件，领会其中的核心精神。

wǒ​men xū​yào zǐ​xì yán dú wén​jiàn, lǐng​huì qí​zhōng de hé​xīn jīng​shén.

We need to study the document carefully to grasp its core spirit.

grind verb
to grind, rub, or pulverize into fine powder

中医师建议将这几味药材研成细末后再冲服。

zhōng​yī​shī jiàn​yì jiāng zhè jǐ wèi yào​cái yán chéng xì mò hòu zài chōng​fú.

The Chinese medicine doctor suggested grinding these herbs into a fine powder before taking them with water.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
447th most common 484.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,066th most common 91.0 per million appears in 30% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.19 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
23.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+7814

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