秧
yāng HSK7

rice seedlings

秧 yāng
to cultivate verb
To raise, grow, or nurture plants or animals (dialectal).

他在阳台上秧了几盆辣椒。

tā zài yáng​tái shàng yāng le jǐ pén là​jiāo.

He started several pots of pepper seedlings on the balcony.

young animal noun
The young of certain animals, such as baby livestock or fish fry.

这池塘里刚撒了一批鱼秧。

zhè chí​táng lǐ gāng sǎ le yī pī yú yāng.

A batch of fish fry was just released into the pond.

seedling verb
A young plant, sprout, or rice seedling; can also refer to the stalk or vine of certain plants.

农民们正忙着在田里插秧。

nóng​mín men zhèng máng zhe zài tián lǐ chā​yāng.

Farmers are busy transplanting rice seedlings in the fields.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,522nd most common 5.18 per million
Movie subtitles
4,412th most common 0.260 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.67 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+79E7

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