夭
yāo

die young

夭 yāo frequency
luxuriant descriptive
(of vegetation) lush, fresh, and flourishing

桃之夭夭，灼灼其华。

táo zhī yāo yāo, zhuó​zhuó qí huā.

The peach trees are young and elegant, their flowers brilliant and bright.

die young verb
to die prematurely

这株幼苗还没长大就夭了。

zhè zhū yòu​miáo hái méi zhǎng​dà jiù yāo le.

The seedling died before it could grow up.

夭 (殀) yāo
die young verb
(bound form) to die prematurely

那个天才不幸夭折了。

nà gè tiān​cái bù​xìng yāo​zhé le.

That genius unfortunately died at a young age.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,079th most common 8.83 per million
Movie subtitles
3,099th most common 2.95 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.360 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
4.87 per million

Details
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+592D

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