鞘
qiàoshāo

scabbard

鞘 qiào frequency
sheath noun
scabbard or sheath; also used for sheath-like structures such as the protective outer wings of beetles or the covering of certain plant parts
silver transport tube
hollow wooden tube used to hold and transport silver in former times
鞘 shāo
whip lash
the thin leather strip or tip at the end of a whip rope

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,036th most common 9.43 per million
Movie subtitles
3,821st most common 0.850 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.950 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
7.45 per million

Details
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+9798

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