魇
yǎn

nightmare

魇 魘 yǎn
to have a nightmare noun
To experience a nightmare, specifically one where one feels a heavy pressure on the chest or a sensation of being unable to move while asleep.
to talk in one's sleep
To talk while asleep

Frequency
Character
Written text
4,294th most common 2.17 per million
Movie subtitles
3,479th most common 1.52 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Written text
2.12 per million

Details
Traditional
魘
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+9B47

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