舞
wǔ HSK3

dance

舞 wǔ
dance noun
series of rhythmic movements; form of dancing art

我希望这支舞永远不要结束。

wǒ xī​wàng zhè zhī wǔ yǒng​yuǎn bù​yào jié​shù.

I wish this dance would never end.

to dance verb
to perform a dance; to move the body rhythmically to music

为了你自己的快乐而起舞。

wèi​le nǐ zì​jǐ de kuài​lè ér qǐ wǔ.

Dance for your own joy.

她在雪中起舞。

tā zài xuě zhōng qǐ wǔ.

She dances in the snow.

to brandish verb
to wield or brandish something; to move something in a dancing or flowing motion
to flutter
to flutter or fly about in the air
to play tricks with
to play tricks with or engage in fraudulent activities; to manipulate something for one's own ends
to get
(colloquial) to do; to get; to manage or busy oneself with
surname
a Chinese surname

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,144th most common 125.9 per million
Movie subtitles
319th most common 487.4 per million appears in 46% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
221.2 per million appears in 16% of films
Written text
43.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+821E

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