咳
kékǎhāi HSK5

cough

咳 ké frequency
to cough verb
to cough; to force air out of the lungs because of irritation in the throat

你咳得很奇怪。

nǐ ké de hěn qí​guài.

You have a strange cough.

咳 kǎ
to cough up verb
to cough forcefully to clear something stuck in the throat (such as phlegm or a bone) or to spit out blood

最后，她父亲终于能把面包咳出来了。

zuì​hòu, tā fù​qīn zhōng​yú néng bǎ miàn​bāo kǎ chū lái le.

Finally, her father was able to cough out the bread.

咳 hāi
[interjection]
The sound of a sigh; used as an interjection to express sorrow, regret, surprise, or to call for someone's attention

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