穿
chuān HSK1

wear

穿 chuān
wear verb
to wear, put on, or dress in (clothing, shoes, socks, etc.)

他今天穿了一件黑色的外套。

tā jīn​tiān chuān le yī jiàn hēi​sè de wài​tào.

He is wearing a black coat today.

pass through verb
to pass through, cross, or thread (a needle, a street)

这条小路穿过整个村庄。

zhè tiáo xiǎo lù chuān guò zhěng gè cūn​zhuāng.

This path runs through the entire village.

pierce verb
to bore through, pierce, perforate, or penetrate

他的耳朵上穿了一个洞。

tā de ěr​duo shàng chuān le yī gè dòng.

He had his ear pierced.

transmigrate verb
to travel through time and space or enter into a fictional world (short for 穿越 chuān​yuè)

Frequency
Character
Written text
785th most common 234.2 per million
Movie subtitles
408th most common 366.7 per million appears in 78% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
405.0 per million appears in 70% of films
Written text
206.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+7A7F

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