咒
zhòu

curse

咒 zhòu
variant 呪
to curse verbnoun
to wish ill upon someone or to use malicious words to abuse and revile others
incantation noun
(bound form) a magic spell or secret verbal formula used in religious or mystical rituals to ward off evil or command spirits
to swear
(bound form) to take an oath or make a solemn vow
mantra
(bound form) a transliterated Buddhist chant or verse (dharani)
to pray
(literary) to offer prayers to a deity or spirits

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,286th most common 25.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,554th most common 39.3 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.3 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
6.52 per million

Details
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5492

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