哭
kū HSK2

cry

哭 kū
to cry verb
to cry or weep because of pain, sadness, or strong emotion

我哭是因为不想你走。

wǒ kū shì yīn​wèi bù​xiǎng nǐ zǒu.

I'm crying because I don't want you to leave.

to mourn
(literary) to mourn or offer condolences; to wail for the deceased at a funeral
to plead
to complain or lament one's situation in a pitiful way to others

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,210th most common 110.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,020th most common 101.9 per million appears in 34% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
113.7 per million appears in 29% of films
Written text
131.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+54ED

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