扣
kòu HSK6

knock

扣 kòu frequency
discount noun
a discount expressed as a percentage of the original price
to fasten verb
to fasten; to button; to buckle; to tie up

我在扣安全带。

wǒ zài kòu ān​quán​dài.

I'm buckling my seat belt.

to deduct verb
to deduct money or points; to discount

您的信用卡现在不会被扣费。

nín de xìn​yòng​kǎ xiàn​zài bù​huì bèi kòu fèi.

Your credit card will not be charged now.

to cover
to cover with a concave object; to place an object upside down
to detain
to detain; to arrest; to confiscate; to keep under custody
to smash
to smash, spike, or dunk a ball in sports
to knock
to knock or strike; same as 叩 kòu
to grip
to grip tightly; to stick close to a theme or subject
to label
to tag someone with a label; to frame with a crime
bundle
measure word for bundles or bunches
screw thread
(bound form) the thread of a screw
surname
a Chinese surname
to steam then invert
a cooking method where food is steamed in a bowl and then inverted onto a plate
to pull
to pull or pull back a trigger or bowstring
扣 kòu
variant 釦
fastener noun
button; buckle; clasp
knot
a knot made by tying string or rope

Cross-References

Same as

Variant of

Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,625th most common 59.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,524th most common 40.8 per million appears in 19% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
29.4 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
52.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+6263

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