彻
chè HSK4

penetrate

彻 (徹) chè
penetrate verb
to pass through, pervade, or resound throughout a space or period of time

洪亮的钟声在寂静的夜空里响彻了山谷。

hóng​liàng de zhōng​shēng zài jì​jìng de yè​kōng lǐ xiǎng​chè le shān​gǔ.

The resonant tolling of the bell echoed through the valley in the silent night.

thorough adjective
complete and absolute; from beginning to end

那场变故的影响，让他感到彻骨的寒冷。

nà cháng biàn​gù de yǐng​xiǎng, ràng tā gǎn​dào chè gǔ de hán​lěng.

The impact of that incident left him chilled to the bone.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,240th most common 105.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,340th most common 55.6 per million appears in 26% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.96 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
3.82 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
徹
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5F7B

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