抖
dǒu HSK7

tremble

抖 dǒu
tremble verb
to shake or shiver, often due to cold, fear, or emotion

由于害怕，他的手一直在抖。

yóu​yú hài​pà, tā de shǒu yī​zhí zài dǒu.

His hands were shaking because of fear.

reveal verb
to expose or disclose a secret or hidden information

他把两人的秘密全给抖出来了。

tā bǎ liǎng rén de mì​mì quán gěi dǒu chu​lai le.

He blurted out all the secrets between the two of them.

shake out verb
to shake something to remove dust or to unfurl it

他把床单抖了抖，把灰尘掸掉。

tā bǎ chuáng​dān dǒu le dǒu, bǎ huī​chén dǎn diào.

He shook the bedsheet to get the dust off.

prosper verb
to become wealthy or successful, often becoming self-important or arrogant

他现在挣了大钱，整个人都抖起来了。

tā xiàn​zài zhèng le dà qián, zhěng gè rén dōu dǒu qi​lai le.

Now that he's made a lot of money, he's really full of himself.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,757th most common 49.5 per million
Movie subtitles
2,107th most common 16.4 per million appears in 10% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.95 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
16.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+6296

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