告
gào HSK1

tell

告 gào
sue verb
to denounce, report to authorities, or file a lawsuit

受害者决定到法院去告他。

shòu​hài zhě jué​dìng dào fǎ​yuàn qù gào tā.

The victim decided to sue him in court.

tell verb
to tell, inform, say, or announce

临走前记得告我一声，我开车去送你。

lín​zǒu qián jì​de gào wǒ yī shēng, wǒ kāi​chē qù sòng nǐ.

Remember to let me know before you leave; I'll drive you there.

announce/declare verb
to formally declare or indicate a status, result, or condition.

由于证据不足，这场官司最终以失败告终。

yóu​yú zhèng​jù bù​zú, zhè cháng guān​si zuì​zhōng yǐ shī​bài gào zhōng.

Due to insufficient evidence, the lawsuit eventually ended in failure.

Cross-References

Has variant

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