獰
níng

ferocious appearance

狞 獰 níng
ferocious
(bound form) ferocious in appearance; fierce-looking or terrifying. Used in words like 狞笑 níng​xiào and 狰狞 zhēng​níng
to roar
(literary) to roar or growl; to look fierce and powerful like a wild beast.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,457th most common 5.57 per million
Movie subtitles
4,176th most common 0.430 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.313 per million

Details
Simplified
狞
Strokes
17
Unicode
U+7370

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