耿
gěng HSK7

bright

耿 gěng
upright
(bound form) honest and just; upright; describes a person of integrity. Common in words like 耿直 gěng​zhí and 耿介 gěng​jiè
bright
(literary) (bound form) bright; brilliant; luminous. Used in classical contexts to describe light or heavenly bodies.
Geng
a Chinese surname
troubled
(bound form) dedicated; devoted; also describes being uneasy or distressed, as in 耿耿 gěng​gěng

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,687th most common 15.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,754th most common 5.36 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.68 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+803F

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