咳
kéhāi HSK5

cough

咳 ké frequency
cough verb
to cough

他嗓子有些痒，忍不住轻声咳了几下。

tā sǎng​zi yǒu​xiē yǎng, rěn bù zhù qīng​shēng ké le jǐ xià.

His throat felt a bit itchy, and he couldn't help coughing softly a few times.

咳 hāi
sigh interjection
The sound of sighing or an interjection expressing sorrow, regret, or disappointment.

咳，我当初要是听你的就好了。

hāi, wǒ dāng​chū yào​shi tīng nǐ de jiù hǎo le.

Sigh, if only I had listened to you at the beginning.

wow interjection
An interjection expressing surprise or amazement.

咳，这地方变化可真快！

hāi, zhè dì​fang biàn​huà kě zhēn kuài!

Wow, this place has changed so fast!

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,373rd most common 22.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,417th most common 9.82 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.83 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
11.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+54B3

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