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xiàn HSK3

line

线 線 xiàn
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route noun
route; transport line; physical path

跟着地上的蓝线走。

gēn​zhe dì​shang de lán xiàn zǒu.

Follow the blue line on the floor.

line (geometry) noun
(geometry) the figure formed by a moving point

哪条线更长一些？

nǎ tiáo xiàn gèng cháng yī​xiē?

Which line is longer?

thread noun
thread; string; wire; something long and thin like a thread; (bound form) made of cotton thread

什么是钓鱼线？

shén​me shì diào yú xiàn?

What is a fishing line?

boundary noun
boundary; demarcation line; frontline; verge; brink

有一条线你不能越过。

yǒu yī tiáo xiàn nǐ bù​néng yuè guò.

There is a line you can’t cross.

clue noun
(bound form) clue; lead; a thread of information or a person who provides such information
political line nounverb
(political) line; a person's position or role in a specific field of work (e.g. frontline)
[unit] noun
(classifier) used for a glimmer of abstract things like hope; also used to count telephone lines or the tier of a city
surname
a Chinese surname
line (measure word, city tier)
(measure word) for the number of telephone or traffic lines; (after a number) the tier of a Chinese city (e.g. first-tier city)

Frequency
Character
Written text
430th most common 507.8 per million
Movie subtitles
452nd most common 323.9 per million appears in 69% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
113.0 per million appears in 30% of films
Written text
227.7 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Simplified
线
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+7DAB

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