悟
wù HSK6

to apprehend

悟 wù
realize verb
to understand or comprehend something clearly, often after thought or experience

经过一番思考，他终于悟出了这个道理。

jīng​guò yī fān sī​kǎo, tā zhōng​yú wù chū le zhè​ge dào​li.

After some thought, he finally realized this truth.

awaken verb
to become aware of the truth or achieve spiritual enlightenment

听了禅师的一席话，他如梦初醒，瞬间悟了。

tīng le chán​shī de yī xí huà, tā rú​mèng​chū​xǐng, shùn​jiān wù le.

After hearing the Zen master's words, he woke up as if from a dream and understood instantly.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,668th most common 56.2 per million
Movie subtitles
2,506th most common 8.50 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.89 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
11.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+609F

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