腌
yānā

salt

腌 (醃) yān frequency
marinate verb
to salt, pickle, cure, or marinate food for preservation or flavoring

这鱼需要先腌一下再煎。

zhè yú xū​yào xiān yān yī​xià zài jiān.

The fish needs to be marinated before frying.

腌 ā
dirty verb
used in the compound word 腌臜 ā​zā, meaning dirty, filthy, or disgusting

你赶紧把这件腌臜的破衣服换掉。

nǐ gǎn​jǐn bǎ zhè jiàn ā zā de pò yī​fu huàn​diào.

Hurry up and change out of those filthy, ragged clothes.

Frequency
Character
Written text
4,219th most common 2.34 per million
Movie subtitles
3,023rd most common 3.39 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.53 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
4.42 per million

Details
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+814C

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