臨
lín HSK7

draw near

临 (臨) lín
just before verb
to be on the point of or occurring immediately before a certain time

临行前，他再次检查了护照。

lín xíng qián, tā zài​cì jiǎn​chá le hù​zhào.

Before leaving, he checked his passport again.

overlook verb
to face or look down over a place from a higher position

他的卧室窗户临街。

tā de wò​shì chuāng​hu lín jiē.

His bedroom window faces the street.

arrive verb
to arrive at or be present at an event or location

这种好运什么时候才能临到我头上？

zhè zhǒng hǎo​yùn shén​me shí​hou cái néng lín​dào wǒ tóu shàng?

When will this kind of good luck happen to me?

Frequency
Character
Written text
839th most common 212.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,063rd most common 93.0 per million appears in 40% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.43 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
27.3 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
临
Strokes
17
Unicode
U+81E8

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