辨
biàn HSK7

distinguish

辨 biàn
to distinguish verb
to distinguish; to differentiate; to recognize or identify

我起初辨认不出那声音。

wǒ qǐ​chū biàn rèn bu chū nà shēng​yīn.

I at first couldn't recognize the voice.

to argue
(literary) to argue or defend one's point of view; equivalent to 辩 biàn
Bian
(proper noun) a Chinese surname
literary form
a classical Chinese literary form characterized by critical analysis or argumentation

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,910th most common 41.5 per million
Movie subtitles
2,110th most common 16.3 per million appears in 10% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.52 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
8.57 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+8FA8

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