順
shùn HSK6

obey, follow

顺 (順) shùn
favorable adjective
going smoothly, successfully, or as expected

他最近工作很不顺。

tā zuì​jìn gōng​zuò hěn bù shùn.

His work hasn't been going well lately.

obey noun
to follow, comply with, or yield to

他凡事都顺着妻子的心意。

tā fán shì dōu shùn zhe qī​zi de xīn​yì.

He yields to his wife's wishes in everything.

arrange verb
to put in order, organize, or make reasonable

先把这篇文章的逻辑顺一顺，读起来才会更通顺。

xiān bǎ zhè piān wén​zhāng de luó​ji shùn yī shùn, dú qi​lai cái huì gèng tōng​shùn.

Let's smooth out the logic of this article first so that it reads more coherently.

along preposition
in the same direction as

他顺着小路一直走到了尽头。

tā shùn​zhe xiǎo​lù yī​zhí zǒu dào le jìn​tóu.

He followed the path all the way to the end.

Frequency
Character
Written text
938th most common 179.4 per million
Movie subtitles
836th most common 147.0 per million appears in 58% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
21.1 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
51.1 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Simplified
顺
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+9806

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