防
fáng HSK3

defend

防 fáng
to guard against verb
To take precautions against; to prevent or be on the lookout for something undesirable
to defend nounverb
To protect or guard a location; also refers to matters or measures related to defense
embankment
(bound form) A structure built to hold back water, such as a dike or dam
Fang
A Chinese surname
stronghold
(literary) A strategic pass, fortress, or embankment used for military defense

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Frequency
Character
Written text
548th most common 384.8 per million
Movie subtitles
848th most common 141.8 per million appears in 44% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
24.6 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
107.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+9632

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