邪
xié HSK7

evil

邪 xié
pathogenic factor expression
unhealthy influences that cause disease in traditional Chinese medicine

祛邪扶正。

qū xié fú​zhèng.

Eliminate evil and support the righteous.

strange adjective
colloquial usage meaning abnormal or weird

这事真邪，我明明把它放在这儿了。

zhè shì zhēn xié, wǒ míng​míng bǎ tā fàng zài zhè​r le.

This is really strange; I clearly put it right here.

evil expression
demonic, iniquitous, or nefarious

邪不压正。

xié​bù​yā​zhèng.

Good triumphs over evil.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,539th most common 66.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,441st most common 48.0 per million appears in 18% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.44 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
24.0 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+90AA

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