端
duān HSK6

end, hold with both hands

端 duān
variant 耑
extremity nounlocative
(bound form) the end, tip, or extremity of an object

你比较靠近哪一端？

nǐ bǐ​jiào kào​jìn nǎ yī duān?

Which end are you closer to?

beginning noun
(bound form) the start or origin of an event
to carry verb
To hold or carry something level with one or both hands; to present or bring something out for discussion.

他端起一碗水，咕嘟咕嘟地喝了下去。

tā duān qǐ yī wǎn shuǐ, gū​dū gū​dū de hē le xià qu.

He took up a bowl of water and gulped it down.

reason noun
(bound form) A reason, cause, or origin; a point of contention or a disturbance.
aspect adjective
(bound form) an item, aspect, or facet of a situation; a point or lead
upright
(bound form) Upright; straight; proper in conduct or character.
to wipe out
To eliminate completely; to destroy or root out a criminal hideout or nest.
surname
A Chinese surname
bolt of cloth
(archaic) a unit of length for cloth, approximately equal to one bolt 匹 pǐ
really
(archaic) really; after all; in the end

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
916th most common 187.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,475th most common 45.1 per million appears in 23% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
17.7 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
103.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+7AEF

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