臉
liǎn HSK2

face

脸 臉 liǎn
face (anatomy) noun
the front part of the head from the forehead to the chin

你无法改变自己的脸。

nǐ wú​fǎ gǎi​biàn zì​jǐ de liǎn.

You cannot change your face.

face (prestige) nounverb
self-respect or prestige; honor; reputation
facial expression noun
the look or expression on one's face; countenance

当她听到这个坏消息时，她气得沉下脸来。

dāng tā tīng dào zhè​ge huài xiāo​xi shí, tā qì de chén xia liǎn lái.

Her face darkened with anger when she heard the bad news.

front
the front part of certain objects

Cross-References

Classifier

Synonym

Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
615th most common 339.7 per million
Movie subtitles
668th most common 199.6 per million appears in 61% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
151.8 per million appears in 42% of films
Written text
199.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Simplified
脸
Strokes
17
Unicode
U+81C9

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