血
xuè HSK3

blood

血 xuè
blood noun
The red fluid that circulates in the heart and blood vessels; used in formal contexts, compounds, or when used alone in spoken language.

血有很多功能。

xuè yǒu hěn​duō gōng​néng.

Blood has many functions.

related by blood noun
(bound form) Relating to kinship or ancestry by birth.
spirited
(bound form) Describing a person of courageous, high-spirited, or warm-hearted character.
menses
(bound form) In traditional Chinese medicine, referring to menstrual blood or menstrual-related fluids.
surname
a Chinese surname
tears
(literary) blood-like tears used to express extreme grief
to stain with blood
(literary) to smear or stain with blood

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
658th most common 309.8 per million
Movie subtitles
459th most common 317.5 per million appears in 58% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
141.6 per million appears in 31% of films
Written text
161.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+8840

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