障
zhàng HSK6

block, barricade, hinder

障 zhàng
barrier noun
(bound form) an obstacle; a physical barrier or screen used to block or shelter something from wind or sight
fault nounverb
(bound form) a defect or malfunction, as in 故障 gù​zhàng
to safeguard nounverb
(bound form) to protect or defend, as in 保障 bǎo​zhàng
to obstruct noun
(bound form) to block; to hinder; to cover from view; specifically to obstruct or shield one's vision
frontier fortress
(literary) a small fort or defensive wall built at a strategic point on the border

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,237th most common 106.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,478th most common 44.6 per million appears in 19% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.68 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
3.74 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+969C

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