啄
zhuó

to peck

啄 zhuó
to peck verb
to peck; to pick up food or strike something with a beak

啄木鸟正在使劲地啄树干。

zhuó​mù​niǎo zhèng​zài shǐ jìn de zhuó shù​gàn.

The woodpecker is pecking the tree trunk vigorously.

beak
(literary) the beak of a bird
short down-stroke
a calligraphy stroke consisting of a short diagonal down-stroke from right to left, specifically the seventh stroke in the Eight Principles of Yong system

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Frequency
Character
Written text
3,449th most common 5.60 per million
Movie subtitles
3,376th most common 1.79 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.49 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.76 per million

Details
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5544

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