乎
hū HSK4

interrogative or exclamatory final particle

乎 hū
[suffix] adverbverb
(bound form) used as a suffix for certain adjectives or adverbs to emphasize a state or feeling; for example in 几乎 jī​hū or 似乎 sì​hū
[preposition] verb
(classical) used after a verb or adjective to indicate location, time, or comparison; similar to 于 yú
[final particle]
(classical) used at the end of a sentence to express interrogation, doubt, surmise, or exclamation; similar to 吗 ma or 啊 a
[particle]
(classical) used within a sentence to indicate a pause or after a name as a vocative marker to call someone
onomatopoeia
sound of laughter; ha

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Frequency
Character
Written text
458th most common 465.8 per million
Movie subtitles
564th most common 249.4 per million appears in 72% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.68 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
19.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+4E4E

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