陣
zhèn HSK4

burst, array of troops

阵 (陣) zhèn
spell measure word
a short period of time, burst, or classifier for events of short duration

外面刚下了一阵大雨。

wài​miàn gāng xià le yī zhèn dà​yǔ.

There was just a downpour outside.

battle formation noun
disposition of troops

两军在平原上对垒，各自摆好了阵准备迎战。

liǎng jūn zài píng​yuán shàng duì​lěi, gè​zì bǎi hǎo le zhèn zhǔn​bèi yíng​zhàn.

The two armies faced off on the plain, each drawing up their ranks to prepare for battle.

Frequency
Character
Written text
788th most common 232.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,385th most common 51.9 per million appears in 25% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.5 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
41.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Simplified
阵
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+9663

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