茜
qiànxī

madder

茜 qiàn
madder
(bound form) any of several plants in the genus Rubia (e.g. Indian madder) whose roots provide a red dye
deep red
(literary) deep red; alizarin crimson
茜 xī
[transliteration]
Used in the transliteration of foreign names, especially female names like Nancy or Lucy.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
3,097th most common 8.66 per million
Movie subtitles
1,811th most common 26.8 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.17 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
4.96 per million

Details
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+831C

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