凑
còu HSK7

piece together

凑 (湊) còu
gather verb
to gather together, pool or collect

大家凑钱买了一件礼物。

dà​jiā còu qián mǎi le yī jiàn lǐ​wù.

Everyone chipped in money to buy a gift.

happen by chance verb
to happen by chance or coincidence

时间正好凑在他休息那天，我们可以一起去。

shí​jiān zhèng​hǎo còu zài tā xiū​xi nà tiān, wǒ​men kě​yǐ yī​qǐ qù.

The timing happens to coincide with his day off, so we can go together.

move close verb
to move closer to someone or something

他凑到我耳边低声说话。

tā còu dào wǒ ěr bian dī​shēng shuō​huà.

He leaned into my ear and whispered.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,193rd most common 28.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,184th most common 14.4 per million appears in 9% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
9.57 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
16.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
湊
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+51D1

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