链
liàn HSK7

chain

链 (鏈) liàn
chain (unit) measure word
a unit of length used in nautical contexts (100 fathoms, approx. 185m) or surveying (66 feet, approx. 20m)

这艘船距离码头只有一链之遥。

zhè sōu chuán jù​lí mǎ​tou zhǐ yǒu yī liàn zhī yáo.

The ship is only a cable's length away from the pier.

to chain verb
to fasten, bind, or restrain with a chain; to enchain

他用铁链把自行车链在栏杆上。

tā yòng tiě​liàn bǎ zì​xíng​chē liàn zài lán​gān shàng.

He chained his bicycle to the railing with an iron chain.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,099th most common 32.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,627th most common 35.8 per million appears in 15% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.9 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
34.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
鏈
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+94FE

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