研
yányàn HSK4

grind

研 yán frequency
to study nounverb
(bound form) To research; to study or investigate thoroughly
to grind verb
To grind fine; to pulverize or crush into powder.
surname
A Chinese surname
研 yàn
inkstone
An archaic variant of 砚 yàn, referring to an inkstone or a tool for grinding ink.
talc
(archaic) talc or steatite (magnesium silicate)

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