杖
zhàng HSK7

cane

杖 zhàng
flog noun
to beat with a rod or stick as a form of ancient corporal punishment

按律，他应当被处以杖刑，杖四十。

àn lǜ, tā yīng​dāng bèi chǔ​yǐ zhàng xíng, zhàng sì​shí.

According to the law, he should be sentenced to forty strokes of the cane.

cane noun
a staff, rod, or walking stick used for support

他拄着木杖在林间小路上行走。

tā zhǔ zhe mù zhàng zài lín jiān xiǎo lù shàng xíng​zǒu.

He walked along the forest path leaning on a wooden staff.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,435th most common 20.9 per million
Movie subtitles
2,505th most common 8.50 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.82 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
8.03 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+6756

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