稱
chēngchènchèng HSK2

call

称 稱 chēng frequency
to call verb
to call; to name; to address as; to be known as

他不喜欢称它们为动物。

tā bù xǐ​huan chēng tā​men wéi dòng​wù.

He doesn't like to call them animals.

你称他们为朋友。

nǐ chēng tā​men wéi péng​you.

You call them friends.

name noun
name; title; term; reputation
to state verb
to say; to state; to report or claim; to express an opinion or feeling

研究人员称他们不知道为什么随着人们变老幸福度反而提升。

yán​jiū​rén​yuán chēng tā​men bù​zhī​dào wèi​shén​me suí​zhe rén​men biàn lǎo xìng​fú dù fǎn'ér tí​shēng.

Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older.

to praise verb
to praise; to commend; to laud or speak highly of
to weigh verb
to weigh with a scale; to measure the weight of something
to claim
to claim a title or status for oneself by force or authority, such as calling oneself a king or hegemon
to lift
(literary) to lift up; to raise; to take up arms
surname
a Chinese surname
称 稱 chèn
to fit adjectivenoun
to fit; to match; to suit; to be appropriate or balanced
to possess
(colloquial) to have; to possess; to own, especially in the context of being wealthy
称 稱 chèng
steelyard
a steelyard balance or Roman balance for weighing things

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Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
449th most common 483.9 per million
Movie subtitles
882nd most common 132.1 per million appears in 52% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
42.4 per million appears in 17% of films
Written text
295.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Simplified
称
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+7A31

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