鸣
míng HSK7

cry of bird or animal

鸣 鳴 míng
to sound verb
to make a sound, ring, or strike; also used for certain bodily sounds like ringing in the ears
to express nounverb
to voice or publicly express thoughts, feelings, grievances, or gratitude
to cry verb
to cry, chirp, crow, or sing (referring to birds, animals, or insects)

她能听到有虫子绕着他们嗡鸣。

tā néng tīng dào yǒu chóng​zi rào zhe tā​men wēng míng.

She could hear insects buzzing around them.

to be well-known
to be famous or noted for something; to make a name for oneself
surname
a Chinese surname
to strike
to strike, beat, or cause an instrument to sound

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,680th most common 55.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,316th most common 11.7 per million appears in 6% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.92 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
17.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
鳴
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+9E23

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