涅
niè

blacken

涅 niè
variant 湼
to dye black
(literary) to dye black or tattoo
alunite
(literary) alunite, a mineral formerly used as a black dye

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,343rd most common 23.8 per million
Movie subtitles
2,702nd most common 6.00 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.50 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
5.43 per million

Details
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+6D85

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