闲
xián HSK5

fence

闲 (閒) xián frequency
idle verb
not busy or free from work; having leisure time

既然手头的活儿干完了，就别在那儿闲着了。

jì​rán shǒu​tóu de huó​r gàn​wán le, jiù bié zài nà​r xián zhe le.

Since the work at hand is done, don't just stand there doing nothing.

unoccupied verb
not being used or staying vacant

这间屋子一直闲着，没有安排人住。

zhè jiān wū​zi yī​zhí xián zhe, méi​yǒu ān​pái rén zhù.

This room has been vacant; no one has been assigned to live in it.

闲 (閑) xián
enclosure noun
a fence or pen for confining animals

在古代，牧民会把马群赶进闲里休息。

zài gǔ​dài, mù​mín huì bǎ mǎ​qún gǎn jìn xián lǐ xiū​xi.

In ancient times, herdsmen would drive horse herds into enclosures to rest.

idle adjective
being at leisure, unoccupied, or not busy

他最近工作不忙，比较闲。

tā zuì​jìn gōng​zuò bù máng, bǐ​jiào xián.

He hasn't been busy at work lately and has quite a bit of free time.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,529th most common 68.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,500th most common 42.7 per million appears in 23% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
7.99 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
24.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Traditional
閑閒
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+95F2

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