辩
biàn HSK4

dispute

辩 (辯) biàn
debate verb
to debate or discuss a topic in a formal or structured manner

既然大家意见不一，那我们就针对此话题辩一辩。

jì​rán dà​jiā yì​jiàn bù​yī, nà wǒ​men jiù zhēn​duì cǐ huà​tí biàn yī biàn.

Since everyone has different opinions, let's have a debate on this topic.

argue verb
to dispute or argue, often to defend a position or express disagreement

既然你已经认错了，就没必要再辩了。

jì​rán nǐ yǐ​jīng rèn​cuò le, jiù méi bì​yào zài biàn le.

Since you've already admitted your mistake, there's no need to argue further.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,355th most common 90.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,303rd most common 59.0 per million appears in 17% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
12.0 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
8.59 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
辯
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+8FA9

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