独
dú HSK4

alone

独 (獨) dú
only adverb
being the single or sole one

全校这么多学生，独他一个人获得了特等奖。

quán xiào zhè​me duō xué​sheng, dú tā yī gè rén huò​dé le tè​děng​jiǎng.

Of all the students in the school, he alone won the grand prize.

alone verb
being by oneself; solitary

他独坐窗前，看着外面落下的雨滴。

tā dú zuò chuāng qián, kàn zhe wài​miàn luò​xià de yǔ​dī.

He sat alone by the window, watching the raindrops falling outside.

independent adjective
acting or thinking on one's own; autonomous

这种生活方式体现了他独往独来的个性。

zhè zhǒng shēng​huó fāng​shì tǐ​xiàn le tā dú​wǎng​dú​lái de gè​xìng.

This lifestyle reflects his solitary and independent personality.

Frequency
Character
Written text
627th most common 331.8 per million
Movie subtitles
674th most common 196.5 per million appears in 63% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.7 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
50.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
獨
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+72EC

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