蠢
chǔn HSK7

wriggle

蠢 chǔn frequency
stupid adjective
mentally slow, foolish, or physically clumsy

他手脚很笨，干起活来显得很蠢。

tā shǒu​jiǎo hěn bèn, gàn qǐ huó lái xiǎn​de hěn chǔn.

He is very clumsy and looks foolish while working.

wriggle verb
to move like a worm or in a disorderly fashion; to stir

冬眠的昆虫在泥土里蠢动。

dōng​mián de kūn​chóng zài ní​tǔ lǐ chǔn dòng.

Hibernating insects are stirring in the soil.

蠢 (惷) chǔn
stupid adjective

别问这么蠢的问题。

bié wèn zhè​me chǔn de wèn​tí.

Don't ask such a stupid question.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,195th most common 28.6 per million
Movie subtitles
874th most common 133.9 per million appears in 48% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
75.2 per million appears in 26% of films
Written text
8.30 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
21
Unicode
U+8822

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