却
què HSK4

but

却 卻 què
variant 㕁
but adverb
but; yet; however; expresses a contrast or an unexpected turn in a sentence

人喜欢说，却不喜欢听。

rén xǐ​huan shuō, què bù xǐ​huan tīng.

People like to talk but not listen.

他站了起来，却没有离开。

tā zhàn le qǐ​lai, què méi​yǒu lí kāi.

He stood up, but did not leave.

[resultative] verbnoun
used as a suffix after certain verbs or adjectives to indicate completion or removal, similar to 去 qù or 掉 diào
to retreat verb
(bound form) to step back; to move backwards; to withdraw
just adverb
just; exactly; precisely
to reject
(bound form) to decline; to refuse; to push away
to drive back
(bound form) to repulse; to force someone to retreat
surname
a Chinese surname
now
used in storytelling to transition or introduce a new situation, meaning now or at that time

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Frequency
Character
Written text
287th most common 768.4 per million
Movie subtitles
495th most common 292.6 per million appears in 74% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
397.8 per million appears in 73% of films
Written text
724.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
卻
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5374

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