矢
shǐ HSK7

arrow

矢 shǐ
arrow noun
an arrow or dart

那名将军身中一矢，却依然在战场上冲锋陷阵。

nà míng jiāng​jūn shēn zhòng yī shǐ, què yī​rán zài zhàn​chǎng shàng chōng​fēng​xiàn​zhèn.

Though struck by an arrow, the general continued to charge forward on the battlefield.

vow noun
to vow or swear

他矢志要通过自己的努力来改变家乡的面貌。

tā shǐ zhì yào tōng​guò zì​jǐ de nǔ​lì lái gǎi​biàn jiā​xiāng de miàn​mào.

He vowed to transform the appearance of his hometown through his own efforts.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,811th most common 12.7 per million
Movie subtitles
3,169th most common 2.63 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.25 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
5.37 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+77E2

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