央
yāng HSK5

beg

央 yāng
center directional
the middle or central part of something

舞台中央站着一名年轻的歌手。

wǔ​tái zhōng yāng zhàn zhe yī míng nián​qīng de gē​shǒu.

A young singer is standing in the center of the stage.

end verb
the conclusion or finish, typically of a period of time

长夜未央。

cháng​yè wèi yāng.

The long night has not yet ended.

plead verb
to beg, entreat, or request someone to do something

他央人替他说情。

tā yāng rén tì tā shuō​qíng.

He asked someone to intercede on his behalf.

Frequency
Character
Written text
800th most common 227.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,007th most common 19.0 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.76 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
9.24 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+592E

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