告
gàogù HSK1

tell

告 gào frequency
to tell verb
(bound form) to tell; to inform; to report or explain to a superior or elder; also used as a shorthand for 告诉 gào​sù in casual speech
to advise verbnoun
(bound form) to exhort or advise, as in 忠告 zhōng​gào
public notice noun
(bound form) a public announcement, notification, or advertisement
to announce noun
(bound form) to announce; to state clearly
to reach a stage verb
(bound form) to declare that a process has ended or a goal has been reached, as in 告一段落 gào​yī​duàn​luò or 告捷 gào​jié
to sue verb
to accuse; to bring a legal action against someone; to denounce or report a crime to the authorities

她把他们告上法庭。

tā bǎ tā​men gào shàng fǎ​tíng.

She took them to court.

party in a lawsuit noun
(bound form) either of the two sides in a legal case, such as the 原告 yuán​gào (plaintiff) or 被告 bèi​gào (defendant)
to request
(bound form) to ask for; to request; to seek, such as asking for a loan or leave of absence
surname
a Chinese surname
告 gù
(bound form) to sacrifice
(bound form) an ancient ritual sacrifice, specifically used in the phrase 告朔 gào​shuò meaning to sacrifice a sheep to the ancestors on the first day of the lunar month

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Frequency
Character
Written text
310th most common 714.6 per million
Movie subtitles
106th most common 1635.3 per million appears in 99% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
26.6 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
33.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+544A

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