肝
gān HSK6

liver

肝 gān
liver noun
The liver; the anatomical organ.

他因为经常熬夜，肝脏出了点问题。

tā yīn​wèi jīng​cháng áo​yè, gān zàng chū le diǎn wèn​tí.

He developed some liver issues because he often stays up late.

grind noun
(slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing a video game or working.

为了赶进度，我决定今晚肝个通宵。

wèi​le gǎn jìn​dù, wǒ jué​dìng jīn​wǎn gān gè tōng​xiāo.

To catch up on the schedule, I've decided to pull an all-nighter tonight.

grindy noun
(slang, of a video game) involving a lot of repetition or excessive time to progress.

这游戏太肝了，我每天都要刷好几个小时。

zhè yóu​xì tài gān le, wǒ měi tiān dōu yào shuā hǎo​jǐ gè xiǎo​shí.

This game is such a grind; I have to play for hours every day.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,760th most common 49.4 per million
Movie subtitles
2,051st most common 17.8 per million appears in 7% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
7.15 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
51.2 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+809D

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