籤
qiān HSK5

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签 (籤) qiān
lot noun
inscribed bamboo stick used in divination, gambling, or drawing lots

我们通过抽签决定了谁先上台表演。

wǒ​men tōng​guò chōu qiān jué​dìng le shéi xiān shàng​tái biǎo​yǎn.

We decided who would perform first by drawing lots.

label noun
a tag or slip used for marking, identification, or categorization

他在自己的行李箱上挂了一个名签。

tā zài zì​jǐ de xíng​li​xiāng shàng guà le yī gè míng qiān.

He hung a name tag on his suitcase.

sliver noun
small wood or bamboo sliver, such as a toothpick or skewer

他把肉块穿在竹签上烧烤。

tā bǎ ròu​kuài chuān zài zhú qiān shàng shāo​kǎo.

He skewered the meat chunks on bamboo sticks for grilling.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,254th most common 103.7 per million
Movie subtitles
901st most common 125.9 per million appears in 39% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
73.6 per million appears in 21% of films
Written text
36.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Simplified
签
Strokes
23
Unicode
U+7C64

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