愁
chóu HSK5

anxiety

愁 chóu
to worry verb
to worry about something; to be anxious or distressed because of a difficulty

我正愁下一步该怎么办。

wǒ zhèng chóu xià​yī​bù gāi zěn​me​bàn.

I'm worrying about what to do next.

sorrow adjective
sadness, anxiety, or a heavy heart; a gloomy or grieved mood
worried
(bound form) showing a sad or worried expression; gloomy or distressed

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,113th most common 31.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,451st most common 9.24 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
7.90 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
20.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+6101

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