嘲
cháozhāo HSK7

ridicule

嘲 cháo frequency
ridicule verb
to mock, deride, or laugh at someone

面对他人的失误，他只是冷冷地嘲道：“这就是你的水平？”

miàn​duì tā​rén de shī​wù, tā zhǐ​shì lěng​lěng de cháo dào:“ zhè jiù shì nǐ de shuǐ​píng?”

Faced with someone else's mistake, he just sneered coldly, 'Is this the best you can do?'

嘲 zhāo
chirping verb
used in the onomatopoeic expression 嘲哳 zhāo​zhā (describing noisy, discordant, or chirping sounds)

山林里传来阵阵嘲哳的鸟鸣声。

shān​lín lǐ chuán​lái zhèn​zhèn zhāo zhā de niǎo​míng​shēng.

The discordant chirping of birds came from the mountain forest.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,325th most common 24.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,874th most common 24.3 per million appears in 13% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.800 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
8.86 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+5632

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