差
chàchāchāicīcuōchài HSK1

to differ

差 chà frequency
to lack verb
to differ by; to be short of; to lack; to be missing

我们差两秒就被淘汰了。

wǒ​men chà liǎng miǎo jiù bèi táo​tài le.

We were two seconds away from being eliminated.

poor adjective
poor; inferior; not up to standard; of low quality

一颗星最差，五颗星最好。

yī kē xīng zuì chà, wǔ kē xīng zuì​hǎo.

One star is the worst and five stars is the best.

wrong
wrong; incorrect; mistaken
wrongly
(verb complement) used to indicate an action performed mistakenly or incorrectly
差 chā
difference noun
difference; discrepancy; the result of a subtraction in mathematics
mistake nounverb
mistake; error; an unintentional fault
slightly
(literary) slightly; somewhat; to a small extent
差 chāi
assignment nounverb
an official post; a job or task one is assigned to do; a mission
messenger noun
(archaic) a person sent on an errand; a messenger or runner
to dispatch
to send on an errand; to dispatch someone to do a task
surname
a Chinese surname
差 cī
rank
(bound form) rank; grade; class
uneven
(bound form) uneven; irregular; used in the compound 参差 cēn​cī
差 cuō
to slip
(bound form) to slip; to stumble; to fall down
差 chài
to recover
(archaic) to recover from an illness

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Frequency
Character
Written text
732nd most common 260.2 per million
Movie subtitles
599th most common 237.2 per million appears in 73% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
89.9 per million appears in 31% of films
Written text
136.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+5DEE

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