蹭
cèng HSK7

to shuffle

蹭 cèng
dawdle verb
to walk or move slowly

别磨蹭了，我们快走吧。

bié mó cèng le, wǒ​men kuài zǒu ba.

Stop dawdling; let's go.

freeload verb
to get something for free by taking advantage of others

我今天去同事家蹭饭。

wǒ jīn​tiān qù tóng​shì jiā cèng fàn.

I'm going to a colleague's house for a free meal today.

rub verb
to rub against or scrape a surface

他的车在墙上蹭了一下。

tā de chē zài qiáng shàng cèng le yī xià.

His car scraped against the wall.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,707th most common 4.10 per million
Movie subtitles
2,675th most common 6.17 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.23 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
8.54 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
19
Unicode
U+8E6D

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