屠
túTú HSK7

butcher

屠 tú frequency
slaughter verb
to slaughter animals for food

他家祖上几代都以屠猪为生。

tā jiā zǔ shàng jǐ dài dōu yǐ tú zhū wéi​shēng.

His family has been slaughtering pigs for generations.

massacre verb
to kill people in large numbers

传说在古代，残暴的叛军曾下令在该地屠城。

chuán​shuō zài gǔ​dài, cán​bào de pàn​jūn céng xià​lìng zài gāi dì tú​chéng.

Legend has it that in ancient times, brutal rebels ordered a massacre of the city's inhabitants.

屠 Tú
Tu proper name
surname Tu

屠先生是这位著名画家的父亲。

Tú xiān​sheng shì zhè wèi zhù​míng huà​jiā de fù​qīn.

Mr. Tu is the father of this famous painter.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,171st most common 29.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,942nd most common 21.3 per million appears in 9% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.92 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
5.45 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5C60

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