赎
shú HSK7

buy

赎 (贖) shú
ransom verb
to pay a price to free a person from captivity, kidnapping, or detention

绑匪要求家属支付巨额资金赎人。

bǎng​fěi yāo​qiú jiā​shǔ zhī​fù jù'é zī​jīn shú rén.

The kidnappers demanded a huge sum of money to release the hostage.

redeem verb
to pay money to recover property or items that were pawned, pledged, or mortgaged

他打算把当铺里的传家宝赎回来。

tā dǎ​suàn bǎ dàng​pù lǐ de chuán​jiā​bǎo shú huí​lai.

He plans to redeem the family heirloom from the pawnshop.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,863rd most common 11.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,078th most common 17.0 per million appears in 7% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.05 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
3.66 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
贖
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+8D4E

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