逞
chěng HSK7

indulge oneself

逞 chěng
show off verb
to show off, display, or flaunt one's power or ability

他在新同事面前大肆逞能。

tā zài xīn tóng​shì miàn​qián dà​sì chěng​néng.

He showed off his skills in front of his new colleagues.

indulge verb
to give free rein to one's desires or act without restraint

他为了逞一时之快而出口伤人。

tā wèi le chěng yī​shí zhī kuài ér chū​kǒu​shāng​rén.

He spoke hurtful words just for a moment of satisfaction.

succeed verb
to carry out or succeed in a scheme, plot, or negative intention

无论敌人如何狡猾，其阴谋绝不会得逞。

wú​lùn dí​rén rú​hé jiǎo​huá, qí yīn​móu jué bù huì de chěng.

No matter how cunning the enemy is, their plot will never succeed.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,175th most common 7.91 per million
Movie subtitles
2,567th most common 7.58 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.21 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.62 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+901E

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