癮
yǐn HSK7

rash

瘾 (癮) yǐn
craving adjective
An intense urge or desire for something that provides pleasure or satisfaction.

他这几天的烟瘾特别大，一个下午就抽完了一整盒烟。

tā zhè jǐ tiān de yān yǐn tè​bié dà, yī gè xià​wǔ jiù chōu wán le yī zhěng hé yān.

His craving for cigarettes has been very strong lately; he smoked a whole pack in a single afternoon.

addiction noun
A physical or psychological dependence on a habit-forming substance or activity.

他为了戒掉烟瘾付出了很大努力。

tā wèi le jiè​diào yān​yǐn fù​chū le hěn dà nǔ​lì.

He made a great effort to quit his smoking habit.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,258th most common 7.13 per million
Movie subtitles
1,759th most common 29.3 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.05 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
10.4 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
瘾
Strokes
21
Unicode
U+766E

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