念
niàn HSK3

think of, ready

念 niàn frequency
study verb
to attend a school or study a specific subject

他目前在大学里念医学专业。

tā mù​qián zài dà​xué lǐ niàn yī​xué zhuān​yè.

He is currently studying medicine at the university.

read aloud verb
to read out loud, recite, or nag someone (give a tongue-lashing)

奶奶总是在我耳边念个不停，让我多穿衣服。

nǎi​nai zǒng​shì zài wǒ ěr​biān niàn gè bù​tíng, ràng wǒ duō chuān yī​fu.

Grandma is always nagging me to wear more clothes.

think of verb
to miss or long for someone; a thought, idea, or remembrance

他心里一直念着远方的亲人。

tā xīn​li yī​zhí niàn zhe yuǎn​fāng de qīn​rén.

He is always thinking of his relatives far away.

twenty verb
the banker's anti-fraud numeral representing twenty (corresponding to 廿 niàn)

这笔汇款的金额是念万元。

zhè bǐ huì​kuǎn de jīn'é shì niàn wàn yuán.

The amount of this remittance is twenty thousand yuan.

念 (唸) niàn
read aloud verb
to read aloud; to study

请把这段课文大声念给大家听。

qǐng bǎ zhè duàn kè​wén dà​shēng niàn gěi dà​jiā tīng.

Please read this passage of the text aloud to everyone.

Frequency
Character
Written text
477th most common 444.2 per million
Movie subtitles
781st most common 160.8 per million appears in 55% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
37.7 per million appears in 13% of films
Written text
44.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5FF5

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