修
xiū HSK3

decorate, embellish, repair

修 xiū frequency
variant 脩
to repair verb
to repair; to mend; to overhaul or service equipment

他们下午来修电梯。

tā​men xià​wǔ lái xiū diàn​tī.

They're coming this afternoon to fix the elevator.

我会修好车的。

wǒ huì xiū hǎo chē de.

I'll fix the car.

to study verb
to study; to take a course; to attend a class
to cultivate noun
to cultivate or refine one's character; to practice (a religion or asceticism)
long
(literary) long; tall; slender
Xiu
the Chinese surname Xiu
修 xiū
to write verbnoun
to write; to compile; to edit or draft a history or official document
to trim verb
to trim; to prune; to clip; to pare down using scissors or a blade
to decorate verbnoun
to decorate; to embellish; to make something look better or more presentable
to build verb
to build; to construct; to renovate or work on a large infrastructure project
[revisionism]
(abbreviation) short for 修正主义 xiū​zhèng​zhǔ​yì

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Frequency
Character
Written text
740th most common 257.5 per million
Movie subtitles
764th most common 166.5 per million appears in 46% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
54.9 per million appears in 17% of films
Written text
62.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+4FEE

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