磅
bàngpángbāng HSK7

pound

磅 bàng frequency
pound nounmeasure word
unit of weight equal to approximately 454 grams

他们按磅卖糖。

tā​men àn bàng mài táng.

They sell sugar by the pound.

一加仑的水重超过八磅。

yī jiā​lún de shuǐ zhòng chāo guò bā bàng.

A gallon of water weighs over eight pounds.

to weigh nounverb
to weigh something using a scale
scale
an instrument used for weighing, such as a platform scale; often used in the term 过磅 guò​bàng
point
(printing) unit used to measure the size of type
ream weight
(printing) unit used to describe paper thickness; pound
磅 páng
majestic
(bound form) used in the word 磅礴 páng​bó, meaning majestic or boundless
磅 bāng
historical phonetic reading
(bound form) used in specific phonetic or historical compounds

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,941st most common 10.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,770th most common 28.6 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
39.1 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
11.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+78C5

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