竄
cuàn HSK7

run away

窜 (竄) cuàn
amend verb
to alter, edit, or interpolate text in a document or manuscript

由于证据不足，他悄悄在笔录里窜了一个字。

yóu​yú zhèng​jù bù​zú, tā qiāo​qiāo zài bǐ​lù lǐ cuàn le yī gè zì.

Due to insufficient evidence, he surreptitiously altered a word in the transcript.

exile verb
to banish or send someone into exile to a remote location

他在朝廷斗争中失败，被窜贬到偏远地区。

tā zài cháo​tíng dòu​zhēng zhōng shī​bài, bèi cuàn biǎn dào piān​yuǎn dì​qū.

He failed in the court struggle and was banished to a remote region.

flee verb
to run away, escape, or scuttle, often in a panicked or hurried manner

看到有人来，老鼠飞快地窜进了洞里。

kàn​dào yǒu rén lái, lǎo​shǔ fēi​kuài de cuàn jìn le dòng lǐ.

Seeing someone coming, the mouse scurried quickly into its hole.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,461st most common 20.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,887th most common 4.12 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.23 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
10.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
窜
Strokes
18
Unicode
U+7AC4

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