卒
zú HSK7

soldier, to finish

卒 zú
soldier noun
a low-ranking soldier, a servant, or a pawn in Chinese chess

象棋里的卒只能向前走，不能后退。

xiàng​qí lǐ de zú zhǐ néng xiàng​qián zǒu, bù néng hòu​tuì.

A pawn in Chinese chess can only move forward and cannot retreat.

die noun
to pass away or die

这位著名的翻译家于去年病逝，卒于北京。

zhè wèi zhù​míng de fān​yì jiā yú qù​nián bìng​shì, zú yú Běi​jīng.

The famous translator died of illness last year and passed away in Beijing.

finally adverb
finally, at last, or in the end

他虽然几经波折，卒达目的。

tā suī​rán jǐ​jīng bō​zhé, zú dá mù​dì.

Despite many twists and turns, he eventually achieved his goal.

finish idiom
to finish, complete, or conclude

这本书深奥难懂，我花了一周才卒读。

zhè běn shū shēn'ào nán dǒng, wǒ huā le yī zhōu cái zú dú.

This book is so profound and difficult that it took me a week to finish reading it.

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Variant of

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,584th most common 17.1 per million
Movie subtitles
2,966th most common 3.65 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.10 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
6.02 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5352

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