硝
xiāo

saltpeter

硝 xiāo
saltpeter noun
General name for mineral salts such as niter or saltpeter; often used to make gunpowder, fertilizer, or medicine
to tan
To tan or treat leather or animal hides to make them soft, often using mineral salts

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Frequency
Character
Written text
3,085th most common 8.76 per million
Movie subtitles
2,962nd most common 3.65 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.01 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
2.55 per million

Details
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+785D

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