箭
jiàn HSK6

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箭 jiàn
arrow noun
arrow; a weapon or sports tool shot from a bow or crossbow

我们只能制作弓和箭。

wǒ​men zhǐ​néng zhì​zuò gōng hé jiàn.

We can only make bows and arrows.

fast
describes movement that is fast or sudden, as if shot from a bow
[distance]
a unit of distance used in ancient times, roughly equal to the distance an arrow can travel
arrow bamboo
shorthand for 箭竹 jiàn​zhú, a type of bamboo used to make arrows or as food for pandas

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,496th most common 71.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,794th most common 27.6 per million appears in 9% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.6 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
22.0 per million

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

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