低
dī HSK2

low

低 dī
low-level adjective
low in grade, rank, quality, degree, or price

不要害怕从低做起。

bù​yào hài​pà cóng dī zuò qǐ.

Don’t be afraid to start from the bottom.

to lower verb
to lower, hang, or droop something; to bend down

他低头看着他的儿子。

tā dī tóu kàn zhe tā de ér​zi.

He looked down at his son.

low adjective
close to the ground or bottom; of short height

你飞得太低了。

nǐ fēi de tài dī le.

You're flying too low.

quiet adjective
low in volume or soft-spoken

声音低得只有他们两个人才能听到。

shēng​yīn dī de zhǐ​yǒu tā​men liǎng​ge rén cái​néng tīng dào.

It was so low that only the two of them could hear it.

surname
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
592nd most common 353.6 per million
Movie subtitles
965th most common 112.1 per million appears in 46% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
54.3 per million appears in 20% of films
Written text
285.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+4F4E

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