担
dāndàn HSK4

carry

担 (擔) dān frequency
undertake verb
to shoulder responsibility or take on a task

这件事情的后果由我来担。

zhè jiàn shì​qing de hòu​guǒ yóu wǒ lái dān.

I will bear the consequences of this matter.

carry verb
to carry on a shoulder pole or shoulder

他担着两筐苹果去集市。

tā dān zhe liǎng kuāng píng​guǒ qù jí​shì.

He carried two baskets of apples to the market on a shoulder pole.

担 (擔) dàn
load measure word
classifier for items carried on a shoulder pole, typically comprising two buckets full

他挑了一担水到地里。

tā tiāo le yī dàn shuǐ dào dì lǐ.

He carried a load of water to the field.

picul measure word
traditional unit of weight equal to 100 catties or 50 kg

这袋大米刚好重一担。

zhè dài dà​mǐ gāng​hǎo zhòng yī dàn.

This bag of rice weighs exactly one 'dan' (about 50kg).

Frequency
Character
Written text
720th most common 267.7 per million
Movie subtitles
434th most common 339.4 per million appears in 82% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.96 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
118.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
擔
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+62C5

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