拆
chāicā HSK5

to break up

拆 chāi frequency
to take apart verb
To take apart, unravel, or tear open something that is joined together

让男孩们拆个礼物。

ràng nán​hái men chāi ge lǐ​wù.

Let the boys open a present.

to demolish verb
To pull down or dismantle a structure

你不能拆了那房子。

nǐ bù​néng chāi le nà fáng​zi.

You can't tear down that house.

to crack open
To crack or split open (often describing flesh or skin in literary contexts)
拆 cā
to excrete
(Colloquial, dialect) To excrete waste

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,076th most common 33.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,815th most common 26.5 per million appears in 13% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
22.2 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
30.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+62C6

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