贈
zèng HSK5

give present

赠 (贈) zèng
bestow posthumously verb
to confer an honorary title or rank on a person after their death

朝廷追赠他为名誉将军。

cháo​tíng zhuī zèng tā wéi míng​yù jiāng​jūn.

The imperial court posthumously awarded him the title of honorary general.

gift verb
to give something as a present

生日那天，好朋友赠给我一个手工制作的精美风铃。

shēng​rì nà tiān, hǎo péng​you zèng gěi wǒ yī gè shǒu​gōng zhì​zuò de jīng​měi fēng​líng.

On my birthday, a close friend gave me an exquisite handmade wind chime.

repel verb
to drive away or ward off, often referring to evil spirits in an archaic context

在某些地方，人们仍保留着通过祭祀来赠除病魔的习俗。

zài mǒu​xiē dì​fang, rén​men réng bǎo​liú zhe tōng​guò jì​sì lái zèng chú bìng​mó de xí​sú.

In some places, people still maintain the custom of performing sacrifices to dispel diseases.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,123rd most common 31.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,090th most common 16.6 per million appears in 7% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.74 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
18.1 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Simplified
赠
Strokes
19
Unicode
U+8D08

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