衅
xìn HSK7

consecrate sacrificial vessels by smearing blood

衅 釁 xìn
dispute verbnoun
(bound form) a quarrel or dispute; the cause of a conflict, often used in terms like 挑衅 tiǎo​xìn or 寻衅 xún​xìn
blood sacrifice
(bound form) an ancient ritual of offering animal blood or smearing it on new ceremonial vessels; to anoint with blood
crack
(literary) a crack, gap, or rift
surname
a Chinese surname
flaw
(literary) a flaw, fault, or omen of disaster
to smear
(literary) to smear with blood or fragrance; to bathe

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Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,146th most common 8.15 per million
Movie subtitles
2,928th most common 3.86 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Written text
1.65 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
釁
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+8845

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