勺
sháo HSK6

spoon

勺 sháo
centiliter measure word
a unit of volume, often an abbreviation for 公勺 gōng​sháo, equivalent to ten milliliters

做菜时，他习惯往锅里加入一勺料酒提味。

zuò cài shí, tā xí​guàn wǎng guō lǐ jiā​rù yī sháo liào​jiǔ tí wèi.

When cooking, he usually adds a spoonful of cooking wine to the pot to enhance the flavor.

spoon noun
a tool used for eating, serving, or measuring, such as a spoon or ladle

厨师用大勺往碗里舀汤。

chú​shī yòng dà sháo wǎng wǎn lǐ yǎo tāng.

The chef used a large ladle to scoop soup into the bowl.

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,275th most common 7.01 per million
Movie subtitles
2,580th most common 7.34 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.80 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
8.76 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+52FA

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