趁
chèn HSK7

take advantage of

趁 chèn frequency
variant 趂
while preposition
to take advantage of an opportunity or situation; to avail oneself of a certain time or condition

趁汤没凉，你把汤喝了。

chèn tāng méi liáng, nǐ bǎ tāng hē le.

Drink the soup while it is hot.

我趁今天天气好打网球去了。

wǒ chèn jīn​tiān tiān​qì hǎo dǎ wǎng​qiú qù le.

I took advantage of the fine weather today to play tennis.

趁 chèn
to possess
(colloquial) to be rich in; to be possessed of
to chase
(literary) to chase or pursue; to follow; to rush for
to seek
(literary) to look for; to seek; to find

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,109th most common 31.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,950th most common 21.2 per million appears in 13% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
22.5 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
21.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+8D81

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