取
qǔ HSK2

take

取 qǔ
fetch verb
to take or fetch something from a place

我下午要去快递站取包裹。

wǒ xià​wǔ yào qù kuài​dì​zhàn qǔ bāo​guǒ.

I'm going to the courier station to pick up a package this afternoon.

choose verb
to select, pick, or adopt a name or path

为了节省时间，我们决定取近路出发。

wèi​le jié​shěng shí​jiān, wǒ​men jué​dìng qǔ jìn​lù chū​fā.

To save time, we decided to take a shortcut when setting out.

get idiom
to get, obtain, or achieve a result

他在创作中懂得取人之长，补己之短。

tā zài chuàng​zuò zhōng dǒng​de qǔ rén zhī cháng, bǔ jǐ zhī duǎn.

In his creative work, he knows how to learn from others' strengths to offset his own weaknesses.

Frequency
Character
Written text
323rd most common 693.0 per million
Movie subtitles
535th most common 264.9 per million appears in 73% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
69.2 per million appears in 25% of films
Written text
113.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+53D6

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