粘
zhānnián HSK7

viscous

粘 zhān frequency
to adhere verb
to stick to; to be attached to (as of dust, seeds, etc.)

这几页粘在了一起，我无法把它们分开。

zhè jǐ yè zhān zài le yī​qǐ, wǒ wú​fǎ bǎ tā​men fēn kāi.

These pages are stuck together — I can't pull them apart.

to glue verbnoun
to paste; to bond things together using an adhesive
粘 nián
sticky adjective
sticky; glutinous; adhesive; sometimes used as a variant of 黏 nián

他们的头发满是灰尘，手指又黑又粘。

tā​men de tóu​fa mǎn​shì huī​chén, shǒu​zhǐ yòu hēi yòu nián.

Their hair was full of dust and their fingers black and sticky.

Nian
a Chinese surname
to stick
to adhere; to stick to; to glue (standard reading zhān in Mainland China, nián in Taiwan)

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,240th most common 27.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,964th most common 20.4 per million appears in 11% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
22.1 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
27.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+7C98

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