扮
bàn HSK5

dress up

扮 bàn
play verb
to play a role or act a part in a dramatic performance

他在京剧中扮曹操。

tā zài Jīng​jù zhōng bàn Cáo Cāo.

He plays the role of Cao Cao in Beijing Opera.

put on verb
to assume or make a particular facial expression

这孩子喜欢对着镜子扮鬼脸。

zhè hái​zi xǐ​huan duì​zhe jìng​zi bàn guǐ​liǎn.

The child likes to make faces in front of the mirror.

dress up verb
to dress up or disguise oneself as a specific person or character

他在万圣节扮成了一个吸血鬼。

tā zài Wàn​shèng​jié bàn​chéng le yī gè xī​xuè​guǐ.

He dressed up as a vampire for Halloween.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,974th most common 38.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,249th most common 65.7 per million appears in 28% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
13.0 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
9.58 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+626E

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