害
hàihé HSK3

injure

害 hài frequency
to feel verbadjective
to experience or feel (an emotion, usually negative like fear, shame, or shyness)
to harm verbnoun
to do harm to; to injure; to cause trouble for; to result in someone suffering a loss

我怎么可能害你呢？

wǒ zěn​me kě​néng hài nǐ ne?

How could I possibly harm you?

harm noun
evil; disaster; calamity; a disadvantageous factor or downside

我不相信这些成分对皮肤有害。

wǒ bù xiāng​xìn zhè​xiē chéng​fen duì pí​fū yǒu hài.

I don’t believe these ingredients are bad for the skin.

harmful adjective
(bound form) injurious; damaging; destructive

压力对我们的身体是非常有害的。

yā​lì duì wǒ​men de shēn​tǐ shì fēi​cháng yǒu hài de.

Stress is very harmful to our bodies.

亲吻是无害的。

qīn​wěn shì wú hài de.

Kissing is harmless.

to kill verbparticle
to murder; to kill; to cause the death of someone
vital point noun
(bound form) a critical place or part; the crux of a matter; see 要害 yào​hài
to contract
to suffer from (an illness); to be affected by (a disease)
害 hé
why not
used as a rhetorical question, meaning "why not"; same as 曷 hé

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Frequency
Character
Written text
579th most common 359.0 per million
Movie subtitles
298th most common 546.7 per million appears in 87% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
54.9 per million appears in 20% of films
Written text
31.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+5BB3

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