竖
shù HSK7

perpendicular

竖 (豎) shù
vertical noun
in an upright or longitudinal direction; perpendicular to the horizon

请在这张纸上画一条竖线。

qǐng zài zhè zhāng zhǐ shàng huà yī tiáo shù xiàn.

Please draw a vertical line on this paper.

vertical stroke noun
a downward vertical stroke in Chinese characters (one of the basic strokes)

“十”字是由一横一竖组成的。

“ shí” zì shì yóu yī héng yī shù zǔ​chéng de.

The character '十' (ten) is composed of one horizontal stroke and one vertical stroke.

erect verb
to put something in an upright position; to stand up or raise

他竖起大拇指表示赞赏。

tā shù​qǐ dà​mu​zhǐ biǎo​shì zàn​shǎng.

He gave a thumbs-up to show his appreciation.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,505th most common 19.1 per million
Movie subtitles
2,635th most common 6.66 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.98 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
8.32 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
豎竪
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+7AD6

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